Daisuke_K

I've been trying to set up a functioning single-system production-chain for some time now. During my tests I noticed that the production rates of the individual factories didnt line up correctly, even tho I calculated and double-checked everything. So I did some tests, and I found out that factory production can drop when you leave the system. I am not talking about the system not being calculated in its entirety, it still produces, but ata significantly lower rate. They way I found out is the following: I currently own a single system with 3 Stations: 1 Scrap Trader S 1 Steel Factory XXL 1 Fusion Gen Fact. S Everything else required is being brought in ecternaly, and storages for "external goods" are always full(!) I have a cargo ship set up to both deliver Scrap to the Steel factory as well as Steel to the Fusion Gen Factory. The Steel factory is opteration 100% of the time and producing way more than the single Fusion Gen Factory S requires, keeping its storage for Steel at almost 100%. BUT: When I leave the system and go do smth else, the steel stored in my Fusion Gen Factory slowly starts depleting. My Steel factory is still operating at all times and never goes above 200 steel stored, and yet for some reason my steel production is no longer enough to feed the Fusion Gen Factory. Now when I go BACK INTO the system and wait for a while, the steel storage starts filling up again. So either some dark magical force is eating parts of my precious steel whenever I leave or the production rate of my Steel factory simply drops for some unknown reason. Whenever I leave I can see through the Inventory-screen that the steel factories is still being supplied and is producing, just not at the rate it is supposed to. Has anyone encountered anything similiar to this problem yet? Or am I making some sort of wrong assumption maybe? Any sort of help / information is greatly appreciated. thanks in advance Daisuke edit: I found a setting called "weakUpdate" in the config file. Could toggling this on/off have anything to do with it? It seems to be "true" per defaut. Will test it and post results in here later. edit 2: So I did some testing with a silicon mine and I think I may have found some clues to whats happening. It seems like the game is not factoring in the "size" of a station when its not in a active sector, so it basicly turns all stations into "S-size" stations. That'd also explain why I "lost" steel production. The production bonus from assemblies on the other hand seems to work more or less properly. It would be great if someone else could do some testing, to get confirmation on this issue. P.S. This is my first post, let me know if I made any errors / typos. Happy to correct them.