Architect Archive
Thread: Are factories bugged?
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Neilla
Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:13 pm
#1
Hi all,
Lately I've been having real trouble with my factories: They'll run for a while, then stop for no reason that I can detect. Sometimes they consume resources without producing goods, and sometimes they seem to have consumed too few resources.
I might be somehow mistaken... but this has happened about 3 times in the last 2 days.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Lately I've been having real trouble with my factories: They'll run for a while, then stop for no reason that I can detect. Sometimes they consume resources without producing goods, and sometimes they seem to have consumed too few resources.
I might be somehow mistaken... but this has happened about 3 times in the last 2 days.
Has anyone else experienced this?
BoberFett
Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:39 am
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I have numerous troubles with factories. Without going into detail about each problem, I'll just agree that they are buggy sometimes.
Griswel
Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:26 am
#3
If you run out of an item in crates that is consumed in the process of making an item, then the mineral(etc) resources will be consumed for one more item. Apparently they check pre-made itemsafter they check mined resources, and don't put the mined stuff back if you're out of the other.
Besides that I have not seen any oddities lately. There is the old problem of "Error 7" when your output hopper is full.
ComicsGuy
Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:20 pm
#4
Hmm, I can honestly say I haven't had any problems with my factories. (I run my own, plus have admin permission on three others). I've made hundreds of items in the last week alone, mostly candles and lamps, with no problems.
I'm sure if you contact a CSR, they'll suggest you redeed the harvester and move it somewhere else. Might be related to the mysterious house bug, where items disappear when you pick them up and leave a house. Moving the factory must be just busy-work, but maybe it'll have an effect.
BoberFett
Sun Mar 21, 2004 2:56 pm
#5
Yep, I've hadthe problem with consuming resources if you run out of another resource or crated item. And the Error 7. Plus my structure factory no longer sends email when it's done. And there's the issue of having a full hopper even though you don't have 100 items in the output.
d0qtrX
Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:10 am
#6
Fortunately, I have had good success with my food and chem factory. /knocks on wood...
LadyGrey
Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:43 pm
#7
In the last few days I have had some very odd things occur with my structure factory. I am making personal harvesters, which is very straightforward. Three ingredients, and I'm making 100 units, so the resources all round to 1000. Nothing crates, so when I look in output hopper I should see 100 items. I have nothing else in the factory except for the ingredients in the input hopper. Maintenance and power paid up for a month. Factory has been in place for a while, with no apparent problems before this. The schematics are all brand-new. Suddenly, though, I'm getting some runs that have less than 100 in them. And not like it's steadily decreasing with each run, but the numbers run up and down with each batch. One run only had 83 harvesters, then the next run had 100. I'm the only one with access to the factory. There are no resources left in the input hopper after any of the runs. No error messages received from the factory. I always double-check my resources against the schematic before starting the run.
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