What a weird looking penis...Well, my first one doesn't look much better. It's even still in use between Nauvis and Vulcanus. I'm just too lazy to upgrade it to a newer design.
You can, though this design doesn't seem to be doing so. I'm betting it becomes the meta solution for it. Belt buffering doesn't store enough I don't feel, but you can store far more than you'll need in cargo, and you can remove it when required.
After filling up the turrets I start storing a couple of stacks of ammo in the ships inventory. Dumping that into the distribution system during flight makes things a little easier.
My ship is more spaced out and has twice the power, yet barely survived the trip to Vulcanus, only to be met with a blank screen because apparently your character needs to physically be on the spaceship.
Looks good! My ship is just a factory I strapped engines and guns onto. I ran out of ammo and power before I got to my destination (lightning planet) and now my ship is in orbit being slowly destroyed and I'm wondering how I'll get home 😅
Also wondering if I have to build a rocket silo and automate rocket parts again on this new planet. I guess so, since there isn't a passenger capsule like in Space Exploration to return home in.
I'm going into this mostly spoiler-free and I'm trying to get an achievement for researching an off-planet technology before yellow or purple science, but the only available tech is 1000 science packs. So I'm going I'm under-prepared and have to stay for a long time as my "ship" disintegrates above me 😅