Station miners only mine one resource

[[WTP].Doomslug-Jen]

Hi, I have a station which requires the following gasses (hydrogen, methane and helium). I have assigned 6 L gas miners to the station, the station's allotted hydrogen storage is absolutely full and both methane and helium are completely empty. However, every single one of these gas miners are mining hydrogen and every new gas miner I add to the squad immediately mines hydrogen. The station is not buying the other two gasses either, so the production modules down the line are completely useless. The station is producing almost nothing despite sinking nearly 100M credits into it. Manager is 5* and yes there are gas regions for both methane and helium at most 1 sector away marked with resource probes.

I have even tried setting each miner to mine another resource before adding to the station's assignment, but it just over-writes it as soon as I assign them - back to hydrogen. I have tried leaving them for 3 real-world hours to see if the manager ever notices; he doesn't, clearly he just wants more hydrogen. Edit: also most of the miner ships captains are 3* or higher, which means they are capable of being on automine with multiple rotating resources, unlike sector automine; the manager is not doing this either.

I have another station which is fine, it's miners bring in the full spectrum of resources needed. However, honestly until this bug is fixed stations can become randomly completely useless... Pointless to invest that much time and credits into.

[Walker Evans]

Originally posted by WTP.Doomslug-Jen:

The station is not buying the other two gasses either, so the production modules down the line are completely useless.

This is what I'd look into if I ran into such a problem. The station not buying resources indicates that the manager either doesn't think the station needs them for whatever reason or can't buy them. First checks would be to the logical overview to see if purchase is prohibited or if the station doesn't have enough cash. Storage allocation would also be a candidate, maybe all available liquid storage is allocated to Hydrogen?

[[WTP].Doomslug-Jen]

Originally posted by Walker Evans:

Originally posted by WTP.Doomslug-Jen:

The station is not buying the other two gasses either, so the production modules down the line are completely useless.

This is what I'd look into if I ran into such a problem. The station not buying resources indicates that the manager either doesn't think the station needs them for whatever reason or can't buy them. First checks would be to the logical overview to see if purchase is prohibited or if the station doesn't have enough cash. Storage allocation would also be a candidate, maybe all available liquid storage is allocated to Hydrogen?

Ah you're brilliant, i think i may have found it. I had left all 3 on "auto assign storage"; which for some reason it interpreted as "all hydrogen" :S. I hadn't spotted this before because 2M cubed meters of hydrogen is 333k units; I had mistakenly assumed a 1:1 for cubic meters and units with gasses. Hovering over more things revealed that 333k/333k meant 2M/2M meters cube. I am correcting it now in theory.

[[WTP].Doomslug-Jen]

Is there any way to get stations to "dump" hydrogen?

[lalala]

You don't have to have a public trade order, but because technically the subordinates trade with the station you need one that at least allows your ships to trade with it (black/whitelist).

The resouce must also be available in range where the subordinates can operate. Sometimes the resources are on the map but actually depleated.

What I usually do when making such an internal trade is, I keep the price dynamic, since nobody else but the subordinates can make the trade, this way it seems they look for best price (even though no money is transfered) which correlates with how filled the storage is, which should cause them to work on the least stocked resources.

TBH I don't know if that is the reason it works or still, sometimes to pin down why something happens is not easy in the game and you need to make many observations and try exclude errors or correlations...

[Wraith]

Originally posted by WTP.Doomslug-Jen:

Is there any way to get stations to "dump" hydrogen?

I always wonder if you can hack your own station to dump it storage lol maybe try that?.

[Walker Evans]

Originally posted by WTP.Doomslug-Jen:

Is there any way to get stations to "dump" hydrogen?

Only way I know is to have a ship pick it up and dump it from the ship's storage.

Originally posted by lalala:

What I usually do when making such an internal trade is, I keep the price dynamic, since nobody else but the subordinates can make the trade, this way it seems they look for best price (even though no money is transfered) which correlates with how filled the storage is, which should cause them to work on the least stocked resources.

TBH I don't know if that is the reason it works or still, sometimes to pin down why something happens is not easy in the game and you need to make many observations and try exclude errors or correlations...

Yup, that's pretty much how they prioritize what ware to deal with and with whom.