Ammunition Factory S not selling Ammunition S

[Scorcher24]

I have only 3 Ammunition factories in my game discovered so far and only one of them is S and that one does not sell S Ammo, only regular Ammo -.-.

[HawkEye]

The s stands for small size factory, perhaps only the larger ones make different kinds of ammo

[Scorcher24]

I am pretty sure it is used for the size of the ammunition.

https://selfup.github.io/avorion/

[Amalgamachinist]

M, no. There are two kinds of ammunition factory.
One produces Ammunition.
Another produces Ammunition S, Ammunition M and Ammunition L. At once.
And they share the same name. The 'S' in the end of factory name stands for its size. Small. Meaning it has only one production line.

Also, I haven't met station calles 'Ammunition S Factory', ever.

[voidCaster]

Well maybe it's a necro, but I've explored HUGE portions of the galaxy and I just broke through into Tech 29 and Xanion so I finally decided to go visit a Turret Manufacturer.

I needed Ammunition S and I found an Ammunition Factory S which was so handy! But it only sells "Ammunition" without any letters behind it at all.

In the whole galaxy (the huge portions I've wasted time exploring, anyway) there is not a single other Ammunition Factory.

So this is a real problem. I'm going to have to restart my game with a new random seed.

[Eye Aye]

Send out your Explorer captains, there are a million sectors !, you have probably only explored a small portion of the galaxy
As an alternate you could build your own Ammunition factory Large and make your own ammo.

[KnifeHeart]

Originally posted by voidCaster:

Well maybe it's a necro, but I've explored HUGE portions of the galaxy and I just broke through into Tech 29 and Xanion so I finally decided to go visit a Turret Manufacturer.

I needed Ammunition S and I found an Ammunition Factory S which was so handy! But it only sells "Ammunition" without any letters behind it at all.

In the whole galaxy (the huge portions I've wasted time exploring, anyway) there is not a single other Ammunition Factory.

So this is a real problem. I'm going to have to restart my game with a new random seed.

you might be able to buy it from trading posts.

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

Originally posted by voidCaster:

Well maybe it's a necro,

bro this post was 7 years old.......

[rickcarson]

Necro notwithstanding ...

(1) size has nothing to do with it

(2) there are TWO different kinds of ammunition factories and you CANNOT tell them apart from the galaxy map at all. You can only tell them apart by visiting them

(3) there are FOUR different kinds of ammunition

* Ammunition
* Ammunition S
* Ammunition M
* Ammunition L

(4) ONE of the factory types produces Ammunition and Toxic Waste

(5) The other factory type produces the remaining three Ammunition Types (Ammunition S/M/L)

(6) You cannot tell what type of ammunition factory it is without actually going there and seeing what it sells.

(7) Size has nothing to do with it. There are NO Ammunition Factory S which only sell Ammunition S (for instance). If it sells Ammunition S it will sell M and L as well. An Ammunition Factory XXL will either sell Ammuntion (and Toxic Waste) OR Ammunition S/M/L but not both.

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My rough galactic spelunking found approx 3:1 ratio in favour of Ammunition S/M/L over Ammunition+Toxic Waste.

So VoidCaster is probably just unlucky (for whatever they have explored) (NB: in this one I've explored a full quarter circle of the Xanion area and no faction has their homeworld in it. So weird ♥♥♥♥ does happen - that's the beauty of proc-gen. Each game has shortages and abundances in different things, and part of the sandbox element is to find ways around the shortages.)

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Also, what Amalgamachinist said ... in 2018

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References:

productionindex.lua - lines 84 and 73
goodsindex.lua - lines 7, 8, 9 and 10

[voidCaster]

Originally posted by rickcarson:

Necro notwithstanding ...

Also, what Amalgamachinist said ... in 2018

A severe playability problem with the gen-proc in 2018 that hasn't been fixed by 2025 doesn't make me the idiot.

[GThoro]

Just send your merchant captain on procure mission, he can buy anything anywhere.

[thestile]

I remember this confusing me. It's definitely confusing at first

Once I started building my own factories, I realized that every time you add a new line to the assembly it upgrades the size of your factory until you reach an XL size

[voidCaster]

Originally posted by GThoro:

Just send your merchant captain on procure mission, he can buy anything anywhere.

I wish you had posted this a day or two earlier, before I restarted my galaxy! XD

[SandMan]

I guess that no one else goes into wormholes across the Galaxy to an low level area. I have two areas that I have hit. One Faction is in an Iron area in the top right of my GM. The other is in an Naonite area about half way middle of the GM. They are tougher ships and stations. They also have MORE LOOT.
I have moved into the center of the GM. Getting set up to move more claimed asteroids and build another system empire. Just before I go obliterate the Wormhole Guardian.
I have always had the opposite problem. I had ammunition S out the wazoo. I can attack all the Turret Factories and Turret Factory Suppliers. Have about a billion in stolen goods to sell at the hide out. The rest were the mats for building the level 50 turrets at my newly built Turret factory in the center. I also make all ammunition at home base in the Tritium area that I have built up into an empire. I do like this game.