Questions on Homebases and Planets

[Master_Artificer]

So, planets:
-Do you need a faction block on every plate? Is only the plate with the faction block selected to "homebase" protected?
-Do power and shields that I place on one plate transfer over to the next?
-Can factories pull from chests on another plate?
-If I make a really tall structure like an oil derrik looking thing, can I have ships dock to that with no problem?
example:

(If I decide to go full Kuat Drive Yards...)

If I have a big orbital chunk around the equator of the planet, with a little bit of each on a planet plate (so they kinda merge together like planet plates do) can i dock big ships to those without too much of a problem?

 

[Megacrafter127]

-Do you need a faction block on every plate? Is only the plate with the faction block selected to "homebase" protected?
-Do power and shields that I place on one plate transfer over to the next?
-Can factories pull from chests on another plate?
-If I make a really tall structure like an oil derrik looking thing, can I have ships dock to that with no problem?

1. you should not need to, unless a bug is in the way.
2. not to my knowledge
3. no
4. yes, although it will also extend the gravity-range of that plate.

 

[Master_Artificer]

So would docking ships to that cause lag, or would docking be alright?

 

[Megacrafter127]

So would docking ships to that cause lag, or would docking be alright?

Dock would work fine, as long as you don't undock.

 

[Master_Artificer]

but no more lag than normal?
Also, as long as your core seems to be more than 10-20 blocks away from the extended strip, the ship is not in gravity when you undock. Or, that's how it was when I tested back before the rails update.

EDIT: as in, big ships with cores farther away from the dock than small ships did.