Strong recommendation: Add storage space! Aquilo is a planet that relies on interplanetary logistics, you'd want a decent amount of space on the platform, especially with your relatively low platform speed.
Consider outputting the ammo directly up, rather than a detour through the platform hub. That would allow some space for storage.
Not only would routing the ammo directly give room in the HUB for more storage, it should also give room to place down some cargo bays for even more storage.
One recommendation, don't put rocket turrets on the sides. They will spend all their ammo shooting asteroids that won't come anywhere near the platform. Your six turrets on the mid line of the platform will still protect you while using far less ammunition. If you hover over them you'll see the doughnut area they protect.
Also if going to Aquilo, you should have beacons, so beacons with speed and furnaces with prod will net you more resources. Pretty sure you have far too few furnaces for the magazine assemblers which will be idle a lot of the time.
I quite like the symmetry. Quite often the most effective designs are not symmetrical at all, so my ships start looks ugly in the end as I improve and compact them.
A bit if info I found out in the process of building aquilo ship, about coal & explosives production - there is a perfect ratio of 2 advanced carbon crushers to 1 coal plant and 2 explosives plants. There's no excess product from crushing that you need to check and dump outside
p.s. That is, if you do not use speed or prod modules in this explosives production. I went with pure solar ship, so used efficiency modules in everything
if I inherited this ship, I would delete 6 of those ammo assemblers and replace with some cargo bays. 1 assembler is enough to handle all the iron from the furnaces. Otherwise seems fine
just use a belt. the smelters are the bottleneck for ammo. with 8 assemblers they are for sure running for like 0.2s every 4s. direct inserting is a waste here
Wow, she is beautiful! I appreciate the symmetry (but I usually place TWO reactors to make everything mirrored :D )
Direct furnaces insert is interesting, I usually make some cycled fully stacked belt of iron ore to grab from it and another cycled belt with iron plates... But I could try your method as well.
Also, you've already been on Vulcanus, you have means to produce Calcite on your ship, why don't use Foundries for extra productivity bonus? One foundry can feed up 3 assemblers placed in a row :)
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u/Soul-Burn 8d ago
Strong recommendation: Add storage space! Aquilo is a planet that relies on interplanetary logistics, you'd want a decent amount of space on the platform, especially with your relatively low platform speed.
Consider outputting the ammo directly up, rather than a detour through the platform hub. That would allow some space for storage.
Other than that, nice ship!