Why does production stop?

[Speechless]

I cant figure out why all production and automated assembly keeps stopping. Anyone out there with an answer?

[Speechless]

Originally posted by breakwind:

If you turn the game off, it is off

ahhh, that is likely the issue, but seems a fault, the game is after all about automation, the machines should stay going until the fuel is gone regardless of being logged in or not, a fault indeed, but perhaps theyll correct this mistake after early access

[Suzaku]

Wait, seriously? I thought I was misinterpreting, but you were actually closing the game and expecting it to just keep running? Come on, man. This is... I have no words.

[PersonIDK]

Originally posted by Speechless:

Originally posted by breakwind:

If you turn the game off, it is off

ahhh, that is likely the issue, but seems a fault, the game is after all about automation, the machines should stay going until the fuel is gone regardless of being logged in or not, a fault indeed, but perhaps theyll correct this mistake after early access

The game is not just about automation, but also about efficiency. If all machines kept running while you were gone, there is no point in setting up efficient factories as you'll have all the resources you need when you wake up the next morning even with some of the most inefficient factories conceivable. The game not running while you do other stuff pushes you to make efficient factories so you don't need to wait long if at all while playing. You can just leave the game running overnight if you truly want to, but then you're just ruining it for yourself, and it's your own decision to do so. Maybe a setting in the future would be the best resolution: "Run factory while application is closed - Yes/No", but this can just be abused by closing the game, then setting your system clock forward, then re-opening the game right away. They could also just have a task constantly running in the background simulating your factory running, which is also not great as it eats your computer's resources constantly.

[IPWIW]

you close the game,you close the factory
offline reward is like all those clicker/idle games

[Tankfriend]

Originally posted by Speechless:

Originally posted by breakwind:

If you turn the game off, it is off

ahhh, that is likely the issue, but seems a fault, the game is after all about automation, the machines should stay going until the fuel is gone regardless of being logged in or not, a fault indeed, but perhaps theyll correct this mistake after early access

This game might be about automation and production of massive quantities, but it is NOT an idle game like you get with various browser games.

[sansee]

Speaking of being speechless.... this thread made my day! LOL!

[ZayasTM]

Originally posted by Shadow Draxis:

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

It's not a bug. All discharges have to go somewhere, or else production stops. With bauxite, you end up with water after the Alumina Solution makes aluminum scrap. That water has to go somewhere.
If a recipe indicates that it is producing a liquid and a solid, both of them must go somewhere. If either of those is a dead-end, you'll have to manually clear them.

Loop the water back into the start of the process. Or use it to make sulfuric acid. Or use it to make packaged water and run that into a sink.

Im using it to feed directly into my 4th refinery. its underclocked to use up 75m3 of water and the alumina solution is overclocked to produce 75 water. Its bugged.

It has to be bugged. Same thing is happening to me, my refinery takes water and bauxite and produces alumina solution and silica. The alumina solution gets converted into water and aluminum scraps. Those scraps become ingots, while the water goes to another refinery to be converted into plastic along with polymer resin that comes from another refinery. The first refinery that starts everything stops production, I don't know if it is because the pipes are full (which should't as the other refineries should be consuming constantly). So I think it has to be bugged.

[Tenzek]

Check your outputs and see if they have backed up. If they're full, that is definitely the problem. If they aren't full, it is definitely not the problem.

[Tenebris]

Originally posted by Tenzek:

Check your outputs and see if they have backed up. If they're full, that is definitely the problem. If they aren't full, it is definitely not the problem.

Bruh, check the date on the thread, this just got necro'd. HARD

[Tenzek]

Originally posted by Tenebris:

Originally posted by Tenzek:

Check your outputs and see if they have backed up. If they're full, that is definitely the problem. If they aren't full, it is definitely not the problem.

Bruh, check the date on the thread, this just got necro'd. HARD

Go ahead and check the date. The guy above me posted 2 hours before I did, so it would be reasonable to think he still needed an answer.

He used the search engine and continued a thread discussing his question rather than making a new one. He did the right thing, and there is no reason to give him a difficult time in getting help.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Tenzek:

He used the search engine and continued a thread discussing his question rather than making a new one. He did the right thing, and there is no reason to give him a difficult time in getting help.

You're not wrong, however...

Originally posted by ZayasTM:

I don't know if it is because the pipes are full (which should't as the other refineries should be consuming constantly). So I think it has to be bugged.

He hasn't bothered troubleshooting his own problem and simply says its a bug. That doesn't sound like someone asking for help, more looking for something to blame.

[Tenzek]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

He hasn't bothered troubleshooting his own problem and simply says its a bug. That doesn't sound like someone asking for help, more looking for something to blame.

I guess the Internet provides the ideal place to judge people.

[76561199037519180]

Originally posted by Speechless:

I cant figure out why all production and automated assembly keeps stopping. Anyone out there with an answer?

The game won’t produce parts when the game is closed because you need constant maintenance like adding fuel to burners and flushing fluid buffers, if these run out or reach a maximum capacity your production will stop anyway.