it's a work in progress, what you see now is an early experimental platform where I'm testing and learning.
What it is in it's current state, a large mobile platform that makes it's own fuel, ammo, and has a fully functional automall. My suggestion for your planet side base is to build a landing pad and add 8-10 cargo bay's to it. Then in the logistics tab add the mall t1 through t5, but do not edit those groups! just add them. lastly make a group to add ore, plates, pipe and so on. this'll bring everything on platform to the ground and keep at least one stack of each. you can of course build your own list of what to bring down if you prefer. I'll try to include a good ground starter blueprint for deploying on a new planet when I get the chance.
I will update this as I make changes.
PS, I am a full time truck driver and rarely have much free time, so this is a long term project. Check back at least once a month though to see my progress and give me your feedback.
fyi, feedback on the inefficient design in it's current state isn't needed. it's a test bed at this point and I'll no doubt do many things much differently as I learn
Version update, 0.03. it's functional! although it doesn't do much yet. what works, resource gathering, engines/fuel. ammo production. Limited manufacturing. Yes I know it's kinda ugly looking, and it's very slow traveling. I didn't intend it to go fast for now, and might keep it slow on purpose for traveling into dense asteroids further out into the system. it lacks weapons to go anywhere but the inner planets. better weapons are planned for a future update but for now I'm focusing on inner planets.
I abandoned my plan to make this a starter platform, I'll do a starter platform later which will be a decent hauler and such. this one does require foundries and advanced asteroid processing. fyi, not updating image because too much effort after each update.
version update 0.04. it's fully functional! it's ugly, disorganized, and inefficient, but it works without fail [I think]. again I haven't bothered to update the picture. This first version requires foundaries to work as well as advanced asteroid processing. I'll start working on a starter platform that requires neither, and as a bonus the starter platform will support building out to the full platform by applying a few blueprints in order fully without ground support to accomplish it [except for oil processing plants as they need stone]. until I get the starter platform done, this entire thing will require ground support to be built. I know there's a lot of seemingly wasted space, it's because I plan to add more to this and want room to spare. Also if you need more storage to make this do double duty as a hauler, just place some more cargo bays, you've got lots of room to do so.
version update 0.05 fixed a few bugs, had a couple stacker arms where they didn't belong, and forgot to make explosives and send some coal back to the hanger.