MegaBasing in 2.0

[PopsurSocks]

So disclaimer I dont have Space Age. I'm attempting to Megabase for the first time and I have an issue...White science only spawns from a single location. Is this new? I feel like you used to be able to make multiple launch platforms and have white science at a variety of locations?
This seems like a massive bottleneck to making a good Megabase.

[Fel]

The old system was each rocket silo would get their own "result", you had to fully unload the 1k white science packs before the next launch or you would be wasting some of what would be coming from the next launch.
Now, all results end up in the cargo landing pad that is effectively a big chest.

With bulk inserters (previously called "stack inserter"), you can unload with as many as 8 per side, so 32 of them in total, each capable of unloading up to 12 at once.
If you unload into chests (possibly logistics chests), each can unload 27.69 per second, for a total of 886.08 being unloaded per second.

This means that to overwhelm the unload rate, you would need to send a rocket at nearly one per second.

Usually, when talking about megafactory scale, we are talking in science per minute, the unload rate would "cap" at 53,164.8 white science per minute.
It is a high enough rate that you would probably be hard-pressed to get that high for the other science packs.

But you are right, in theory this is a bottleneck.

[mrxak]

The cargo landing pad is a logistics network passive provider chest.

[Fel]

I didn't know that, it makes it even less of a bottleneck then.

[ProPeach]

You can also upgrade the cargo size of the landing pad using the same cargo modules that the space platform uses, so you can make it infinitely big to have a huge buffer if you wanted

[Fel]

Originally posted by ProPeach:

You can also upgrade the cargo size of the landing pad using the same cargo modules that the space platform uses, so you can make it infinitely big to have a huge buffer if you wanted

This only applies to space age, OP specifically mentionned not owning it.

[dragonsphotoworks]

With out a mod i think you only can build one? In that case once hit capacity of your 32 inserters your capped sadly. IF not going for achievements you can get a small mod that allows you to build more of them. Is there any infinite research in base game to increase it at all? im not that far and havent looked.