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NerfedGamer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:07am
Resources not delivered fast enough
I'm in late Chapter 3 with a food producing sector and a sector filled with non-workers needing 94 food. For some reason the food producing sector started saying that it failed to transfer resources and I'm sitting on a stockpile of 500 food while the non-workers sector has at most 35 food. I played with the transfer settings and added extra stockpiles to both the food sector and the non-worker sector to try and speed up the movement of food but nothing is fixing this. I can't get more food to my non-workers. They end up striking and everything goes to pot. It's pretty game breaking. Help!
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Besmer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:09am 
Can you give us some screenshots? Like the transfer settings screen for the sectors in question especially.
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juliejayne Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:14am 
Check road access. I had a couple of times that my roads on the first tile next to the sector wall vanished. That throws a big spanner into transfers.
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NerfedGamer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:18am 
Originally posted by Besmer:
Can you give us some screenshots? Like the transfer settings screen for the sectors in question especially.

Sure - Sector 5 is my food producing sector - https://ibb.co/94FXjRS
Sector 4 is my non-worker sector - https://ibb.co/YWkyc5S
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NerfedGamer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:19am 
Originally posted by juliejayne:
Check road access. I had a couple of times that my roads on the first tile next to the sector wall vanished. That throws a big spanner into transfers.

Roads are good! I thought the same thing when this started!
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Besmer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:25am 
Can you try to prioritize Sector 4 over others in Sector 5's settings, and try lowering Sectors 1-2-3's minimum stockpile to a reasonable amount instead of max stockpiles?
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NerfedGamer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:35am 
Originally posted by Besmer:
Can you try to prioritize Sector 4 over others in Sector 5's settings, and try lowering Sectors 1-2-3's minimum stockpile to a reasonable amount instead of max stockpiles?

When I saw your reply I thought to myself what a fool I was for not setting the priority of the export. Of course this would fix it! I made ll the changes you suggested and let it run for a few more meal cycles. Still no love. My non-workers get maybe 40 food delivered over 5 cycles. Game breaking! I have over 70 hours in the game, never finished it yet. I'm so pissed that this is ending my game!
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Besmer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:39am 
Well the thing is (some of this is just my theorycraft) the game probably adjusts what-to-export-where-and-when kind of calculations on its own, probably factors in the distance between stockpiles and prioritizes the farther somewhat. So if you want all of them run rampant with equal priority and vast stockpiles to fill, it probably leaves your Sector 4 for last, which will never get enough items till all others are fed up. (Think of it as a factory automation game where you build a constructor manifold, the latest machine gets its items after all others are satisfied. Probably this happens in reverse order here.)

What you can do (not to ragequit the game) is disable the Food tick on Sectors 1-2-3 until your S4 Food stockpile is satisfied enough, then turn them back on. Keep an eye on them for a while, you might need to repeat it a few times, and make sure you have some surplus in your Food production so that it won't end in a deadlock and fix itself in a few dozens of cycles.

... and GIT DRONING :p
Last edited by Besmer; Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:48am
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NerfedGamer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:48am 
Originally posted by Besmer:
Well the thing is (some of this is just my theorycraft) the game probably adjusts what-to-export-where-and-when kind of calculations on its own, probably factors in the distance between stockpiles and prioritizes the farther somewhat. So if you want all of them run rampant with equal priority and vast stockpiles to fill, it probably leaves your Sector 4 for last, which will never get enough items till all others are fed up.

What you can do (not to ragequit the game) is disable the Food tick on Sectors 1-2-3 until your S4 Food stockpile is satisfied enough, then turn them back on. Keep an eye on them for a while, you might need to repeat it a few times, and make sure you have some surplus in your Food production so that it won't end in a deadlock and fix itself in a few dozens of cycles.

... and GIT DRONING :p

This helped - I turned off food delivery to all sectors except for my non-workers and they got the food delivered. IMO it's not sustainable though and now other sectors are angry. I'm going to bow out of the game for now and see if the devs have updates for it. I really like this game - it's a good challenge but this resource transferring BS is BS. Thanks for all your help!
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Besmer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:55am 
While trying my solution, try to time it better just after meal cycles for a few times. Will give you a buffer time window before they go starving and angry. If it still doesn't help, you either can't produce enough food or definitely need to throw in a few drone ports. Happy to help!
Last edited by Besmer; Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:59am
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Besmer Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:57am 
Oh and btw, unlocking Sector 6 with minimum infrastructure and a road through the side doors might help. Will speed up your food transportation to Sectors 1 and maybe 2 (depending on where your stockpiles are).
Last edited by Besmer; Dec 26, 2022 @ 4:58am
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springy Dec 26, 2022 @ 6:26am 
ive had a simillar issue where my food sector stopped delivering to my pop sector for no apparent reason
I messed with the request amounts and it fixed itself
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Flin Fredstone Dec 26, 2022 @ 11:12am 
From your screenshot i see that you have set the desired quantities to max in all sectors. If sectors don't need max then lower it. You only have a limited number of delivery forklifts until you add a dronebay.
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Flin Fredstone Dec 26, 2022 @ 11:22am 
Oh and sector 5 for foodsupply while sector 6 is not unlocked will have your delivery forklifts drive through sector 4,3 and 2 to deliver to sector 1. Until you have unlocked all sectors sector 3 for food supply would seem more suitable.
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NerfedGamer Dec 27, 2022 @ 5:21pm 
So, you all had good advice and it all came in handy. This issue was totally my fault for not planning better and after a few tries I finally got the food delivered. The issue was solved by the drones and was caused by multiple issues - moving the food sector to sector 5 without a better way of delivering it and without sector 6 opened for easier transportation. Thank you all for the help! -Joe
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TsPok Dec 27, 2022 @ 7:46pm 
Sector 5 is sending food to all other sectors. Is there enougth transport? One small stockpile can send only 5 cargos at once (7 with upgrades) and until they return this stockpile will not be working - no transfering food to other sectors, no collecting food from farms, no sending food to mess hall.

I can see, you have 5 stockpiles in sector 5. And transport has to pass all 5 sectors to reach sector 1 and also move through whole station. It might happened that 2 or even 3 stockpiels are sending food for this farthest sector and no vehicles left for closed one.

There may be several solutions
1. build more stockpiles in sector 5
2. research upgrades for stockpiles increasing vehicle number
3. research and buil drones
4. set needed food in other sectors to less numbers (or every sector has about 1000 population?)
5. open sector 6 only for road to sector 1
6. build reserved food production in other sectors.
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