Architect Archive

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kastlyn wrote:
It wouldn't be too hard if it e-mailed you whenever your harvester STOPPED, and then listed the reason. I don't see how it would be any more difficult to implement than the factory e-mails. Hell, it doesn't even have to tell me why exactly it stopped. Just knowing that it DID stop is enough for me.

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Actually, the harvester doesn't exist if nobody is next to it, so the game doesn't know the Harvester stopped. The harvester doesn't really stop until you go to it and open it. At that point it recognizes when the resource it is mining was depleted, and how much it mined before it depleted. In order for them to make it work the way you describe the Harvesters would have to be in-game all the time, which would suck up resources, and bog down the game for everyone.

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Cigaran wrote:

Umm, hate to do it but you're a little off on the second idea. Yeah, they run on a timer code for knowing when the items will be done but it still sends out an e-mail saying that its stoped because it ran out of X resource. That in no way is a timer. This wouldn't be too hard to impliment.

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Actually, that is also precalculated. You've placed the materials in the Factory, and the factory calculates how many it uses up for each item and how long until it runs out of material. There are other elements to this, but that is the simple version.