Connect Cargo receivers/Dispatchers between bases

[dbramblett]

Ideally, we should be able to connect Dispatchers/Receivers to each other, as well as product plan inputs/outputs, which should also automatically calculate how much through put is possible/utilized on either end.

The biggest obstacle at present that I can think of, is that the planners do not care what kind of rail is being used, which is integral to determining how much throughput you can get through a dispatcher/receiver pair. At least for accuracy. I tend to assume max throughput for base planning, so I always assume 200/min for 100 size stacks. If the planner does the same, then the rest should be relatively straightforward.

1. Add an output area to the product plan editor.
2. In the product plan editor, Assign product output to 1 or more dispatchers until there is no more output to assign. Each dispatcher takes up to a 200/min bite out of the total output.
3. Connect the dispatcher to a receiver. The connected dispatcher determines the product and throughput of the receiver as an input elsewhere.
4. Adjustments to the source plan cascade from dispatchers to receivers, which I would guess is the trickiest part of this.

Manually calculating the throughput of a dispatcher/receiver pair as it moves from one base to another through several tiers of products is almost impossible to do manually, even if you plan perfectly and don't change something somewhere at some point. But connecting bases to each other with this would make such a change easy to trace. It probably also lays the foundation for connecting rails between bases too. Or possibly the other way round.

[flexsurfer]

thanks @dbramblett , posted this on discord https://discord.com/channels/1464649504421707930/1464649506778779766/1513055373265731605

[flexsurfer]

hey @dbramblett check the latest release