I now understand that habitats exist in order to turn surplus "consumer goods" into money.

What I am wondering is how you control (or if you can control) their consumption of resources when they are part of a station complex.


I have a complex that makes tools. If I build a habitat in that complex, with the residents immediately consume all my tools? Or do I have to sell the tools to them specifically?

Or should I just plan to build my habs as free-floating stations, so that I can control the rate of resource consumption/transformation into money?