Interstellar VEssels and Warpers

[say1988]

What is the proper way to supply Warpers to logistics stations on planets that don't have Warper production? I Have set one of the five slots on each to Warpers, but losing 20% of the slots is really annoying and seems like it should be unnecessary so I wonder if I am missing something?

Also, I really wish there was an third option for the stations, being able to set local, intrasystem, and interstellar demand/supply would be really helpful.

[LorDC]

You aren't missing anything. Using logistic slot is the only realistic way to supply warpers across your cluster.
Locking up one of the slots is annoying but ultimately not a problem, because most of recipes have at most four inputs/outputs total.

IMO they should increase logistic slots to 12 (number of output belts) and add separate "slots" for warpers, vessels and drones.

[Electric Donkey]

Ultimately, the cost of building stations should become negligible, so that if you want to have some materials only delivered within the local system and other materials delivered anywhere in the cluster, you would just put down multiple stations and configure them accordingly.

Also if you want to maximize the number of available slots for different materials: instead of having warpers take up a slot in every station on a planet, just have ONE station demand warpers, then dump those warpers onto a belt that feeds a planetary logistics station, and use the planetary logistics system (drones) to distribute them to your other interplanetary stations via belts. You can feed warpers into any interplanetary logistics station on a belt and it will use those warpers without having to take up one of the 5 slots for materials.

[Tenzek]

After you get Logistics Carrier Engine level 4, there is a 6th slot in Interstellar Logistics Stations dedicated for warpers.

You can then dedicate a single station to receive warpers from a distant system, and feed them out to planetary stations nearby the stations you want to ship items from. If you connect those by belt to the stations you want to have warpers, it will automatically use the 6th slot without you having to select anything. They will be used as normal from there and if you like, they can be fed through to the next adjacent station by belt.

When things scale up enough, you might not want to ship directly from the production stations, but send the product by drones to a series of dedicated Interstellar stations. This gives you a buffer and also saves you from having to spread warpers out all over the planet. It's much easier to do this in a ring closer to one of the caps with a tight cluster of stations connected to nothing else.