crude oil selling

[Gregorius Magnus]

someone can tell me why when i sell crude oil to the refinery...after few minuts the oil flow slow down...and afther that it stops?!?

[DaMarkiM]

the pump station around the world map only use a small pump. the small pump has severe problems actually emptying a small tank and moving liquids.
Add a medium or big fuel pump between your ships fluid port and tank to speed up the pumping process.
note that adding pumps of the same quality doesnt help. 20 small pumps perform the same or worse than single small pump. From my testing the strongest pump on the line decides the speed.

[Gregorius Magnus]

i have pumps in my tanker...but the flow slow dow proportionally in the time.. in this time its totally stop. it look like if u pump fluid to a tank that now is totally filled an doesnt accept more crude. i hope i was able to explain the situation.

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

Originally posted by squall-leonhart1:

the pump station around the world map only use a small pump.

The gantries according to Beginner use large pumps. The refueling pumps do use small pumps, however.

[DaMarkiM]

Hey Gregorius.
Pumps should work slower as your tank empties as they have more and more work to do to get it out.
A medium pump should however be able to keep pumping and not completely stall.

As i dont see your vehicle here are a few ideas:
1) are the batteries the pumps are hooked up to on low charge?
2) do you by any chance have pumps working in parrallel? These actually DECREASE the amount of fluid moved in some circumstances
3) are the pumps you use medium or big pumps? Adding more small pumps to the system does nothing at all. and small pumps (regrdless of the number) will stall out trying to pump liquid up from an half empty tank
4) are you trying to move up the fluid by a lot? try to build a temporary tank at the halfway point, pump in and then out from there. does that improve flow? if yes your pump setup doesnt have enough ooomph for what you are trying to do and you need bigger pumps or pump in multiple steps
5) i am not sure about this, so take it with a grain of salt. But with custom tanks i always make sure the piping connects to it at the bottom. Fluid sensors actually care about the fluid level. i ahvent extensively tested it yet, but pumping may be affected too

if none works you might want to post a link to your ship so we can have a look at it in person

[DaMarkiM]

Originally posted by Ra-Ra-Rasputin:

Originally posted by squall-leonhart1:

the pump station around the world map only use a small pump.

The gantries according to Beginner use large pumps. The refueling pumps do use small pumps, however.

oh, that might be true. thanks for setting that straight - dont want to spread false information.
I assume he is interacting with a small pump somewhere for it to stall out