My first working platform that has now taken me to my first two planets!
After the sad fate of Space Boat which went through the asteroid field like pudding through a cheese grater, and Space Boat II which did not have enough production capabilities to ward off wandering asteroids at Fulgora, the Space Boat III worked perfectly.
With the ability to travel safely and refuel and rearm itself in orbit around any of the starter planets, it is now running autonomous supply transport between Nauvis, Fulgora and Vulcanus without needing any oversight.
At some point I'll have to make a platform with bigger storage and stronger production capabilities so it can travel faster, but for now it does a solid job. :)
Yeah, I agree. I use a blueprint book for balancers, because designing those isn't fun for me and there's so many different ones you might need. In the past I've also grabbed people's rail blueprints because there were only so many ways to make them that I'd didn't really do much (with the new rail stuff, there's a lot more ways).
Ideas though are great to share. You still need to think about how to implement them, but they can help you consider things you wouldn't have on your own, or inform you about less obvious things.