Long range food transportation

[ShaTiK]

Let me start by stating that I've played the game when it came out, played a bit after first 2 patches and then stopped. Right now I picked it up again, with DLC, to try out the new stuff. And, almost immediately, stumbled upon a problem that wasn't a problem before - long range food transportation.
So, before the latest DLC the only factor in placing any dome, other than metals deposits, was space - how big of a dome and how many of them can I fit here? I can't speak for anyone, but I tended to cluster ALL of my domes together - there was little reason not to, provided I had space. Right now, however, we have this neat little mechanic of vistas and research bonus locations - which makes spreading out your domes actually viable. Not necessary, but having +15 and +20% research bonus is an awesome thing that I don't want to pass on. So, naturally, I did just that - had my food dome (turned starting dome into one), research dome (quite some distance apart) and production/gathering dome no too far from food one. And here I stumbled upon a problem that I can't see a way to fix and I want to know what you guys think - maybe I'm just missing something.
I'm referring to a problem with supplying large quantities of food over long range. I need to haul around 80 units of food per day (if I recall correctly a single colonist eat on 1 food per day) over the length of max distance tunnel, from 'food dome' to 'research dome'. Drones can't do that due to their limited range, shuttles do that terribly inefficiently and transport rovers can't have a supply route despite them literally having a button "make a supply route". Transport rovers have only 'move stuff from a to b once, if there is nothing at a or b is full - then terminate the route and go idle', not 'haul stuff from a to b, if a is empty or b is full then wait until it isn't and resume route'.
Right now I have around 80 colonists in research dome and it already is troubling - and I wanted to have some domes spread out, not to mention having maybe >150 colonists in research dome alone. So, am I missing something or the only non-shuttle heavy way to do that is just to have every major dome coupled with it's own farm dome - so no centralized food producing dome, since I can't realistically supply >400 colonists across the whole map?

 

[SillySMS]

My solution has largely just been to create food depots outside my scattered domes, and set them to require ~40 food. Early on, drones and rovers can handle it, and later game, I just brute force it with shuttles. A max-tech shuttle hub can, in a single flight of its 12 shuttles, transport enough food for 360 colonists, which covers you for ~1.5 mega domes.

Incidentally, rather than clustering, I tend to build snaky colonies stretching between metal deposits.

EDIT: Also, it's 0.2 food per colonist per sol. That means your initial passenger rocket has exactly enough food to grow a crop of anything but fruit trees, a good thing when you are running with the Hunger rule.

 

[ShaTiK]

My solution has largely just been to create food depots outside my scattered domes, and set them to require ~40 food. Early on, drones and rovers can handle it, and later game, I just brute force it with shuttles. A max-tech shuttle hub can, in a single flight of its 12 shuttles, transport enough food for 360 colonists, which covers you for ~1.5 mega domes.

Incidentally, rather than clustering, I tend to build snaky colonies stretching between metal deposits.

EDIT: Also, it's 0.2 food per colonist per sol. That means your initial passenger rocket has exactly enough food to grow a crop of anything but fruit trees, a good thing when you are running with the Hunger rule.

Did not knew about 0.2 food per day. That makes it doable with shuttles. A hassle, mind you, having basically 2 dedicated food-shuttles to supply sprawling colony. But doable

 

[Meliandah]

Now you can also Trade with other "rival" colonies place a Trade Pad & ask for food against other ressources , they'll probably propose you to trade (it's different of the planet window and ask "Trade") If you propose with Trade Pads it's a 2nd Trade Place Pads near your dome who need.

You can also for 3rd solution ask them for food in early game they wont want but after Sol 25++ they'll probably give you some (and you can send them Concrete or Metal to up reputation)