Building space platforms from blueprints frustration

[GAMING_Alligator]

Why oh why oh why doesn't the game request and build the foundation first before everything else.

And is there any way to build a whole platform blueprint in one go? It seems it won't let me build "in uncharted space", so I need to build it piecemeal.

[Fel]

Try holding shift, it changes how placing a blueprint works.

[jagholin]

I dunno :) to me the order of requests doesn't really matter because it wouldn't affect anything of importance anyway.

Also I don't have any problems blueprinting whole platforms. In fact, I have a couple blueprints for the whole platforms that I reuse( as cargo vessels to transport stuff between planets)

[GAMING_Alligator]

Originally posted by jagholin:

I dunno :) to me the order of requests doesn't really matter because it wouldn't affect anything of importance anyway.

Also I don't have any problems blueprinting whole platforms. In fact, I have a couple blueprints for the whole platforms that I reuse( as cargo vessels to transport stuff between planets)

That's what I'm trying to do. But my blueprint is big, and it looks like the basic storage on the new platform is going to fill up with buildings before it gets enough foundation to build the actual platform.

[GAMING_Alligator]

Originally posted by Fel:

Try holding shift, it changes how placing a blueprint works.

That let me build the central part of it, but some of it still shows as out of bounds.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371612276

Guess I'll have to wait for the core of the platform to be built, before building the rest.

[Fel]

When making the blueprint, you can also opt to include the "ground" tiles, does that not work for platforms?

[RiO]

Originally posted by GAMING_Alligator:

Why oh why oh why doesn't the game request and build the foundation first before everything else.

For regular requests, you can reorder them by dragging them - and the platform will prioritize the first ones. Like a queue.

Check if you can do that with construction requests, maybe?

[tulpabug]

There's a new super force build key combination. Try that as well. ctrl+shift+left click by default.

[Vigilante]

so the issue is the storage on the platform itself gets full of "non-foundation" so it can't accept any foundation so no rockets launch with foundation in them.
I had same ( although on smaller platforms that your massive one) so I ended up making one rocket a foundation only rocket it sits there with 50 foundations in fed by inserters so that the issue your stating didn’t happen a platform that needs foundations will be fed by this one automatically still even with the feed from network off

[Nonotorious]

Are you talking about the camera not being able to move past a certain point? It's annoying but you can zoom out a see more or you can wait for the platform to be built which will extend the camera range.

[Ishimuro]

a game about automation that doesnt allow to sort(prioritise) auto requests, or doesnt sort auto request by itself, isnt something i expected
auto requests should be done by needed items to expand (aka buildable items only) or/and items that arnt already available by the stack size of a rocket, if there are already 50 turrets that cant be placed, why auto request 500 more just to block the storage