Frustrating: Buggy Conveyor Belts

[Poperah Winchrist]

It seems like conveyor belts are broken to the point that the game is no longer about building a massive factory, but rather, to build, delete, rebuild(, and repeat) your conveyor belts until they magically start working. I'm not sure if there's some magic trick to make them work, but if there is, I'd ask someone chime in to share. The game is great, and provided this single bug can be worked out, I think it'd be entracing!

[cliffski]

Hi there! can you give me some more details on what is not working for you?

[Poperah Winchrist]

Originally posted by cliffski:

Hi there! can you give me some more details on what is not working for you?

Sure. Thanks for responding! It's very strange. I'll connect conveyors, but I'll get the "Next product Slot (Don't remember exact popup)" hovering above the station where the car currently is. It won't move to the next. I'll delete the conveyors, and lay them back down a few times until it suddently magically works. I've tried it on several saves with the same result. I've also noticed sometimes if I connect conveyors into four-way intersections, the metal disk in the center will vanish, leaving just the square under it.

[Poperah Winchrist]

Originally posted by cliffski:

Hi there! can you give me some more details on what is not working for you?

Here's a quick example I did in a new game. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1229954038

[Corrine]

I looked at your picture and I can help you figure out your problem. First let me describe how the act of laying down conveyors works.

When you lay down one conveyor it seems to randomly determine the direction that the conveyor transports goods. But, when you lay down a string of conveyors by clicking and dragging the direction that those conveyors travel is from where you first click to where the end of your dragging ends.

There is a method to determine, just by looking, the direction that any one or all of the conveyors are traveling. This is by looking closely at the grayish and blueish areas of the conveyor which form arrows of a sort. If you look along a section of conveyors the "arrows" should all be pointing the direction of travel. If you see a conveyor that has its "arrows" pointed the opposite way from the rest the cars will not move past the previous factory slot.

In your picture, I noticed that the conveyor slot at the 3 way junction just beyond all of the factory slots that have the "Next slot not found!" message has the "direction of travel arrow" pointed the wrong direction. This is one place you need to fix. This is also why all of your slots previous to this intersection have the message "Next slot not found!". They have no working connection to the next slot.

Hopefully this helps you determine where your problems are and also how to get them fixed.

[cliffski]

Above post is quite correct. Its a bit of a UI failure on my part to be honest, because it should detect that conflict and pop up a 'wrong conveyor direction' notice there...which is obviously bugginess on my part. I will eventually get around to supporting animating the line arrows so its more obvious, as an option.

[Spill]

Originally posted by cliffski:

Above post is quite correct. Its a bit of a UI failure on my part to be honest, because it should detect that conflict and pop up a 'wrong conveyor direction' notice there...which is obviously bugginess on my part. I will eventually get around to supporting animating the line arrows so its more obvious, as an option.

My first time playing. First scenario.

I had wrong direction message.
Deleted the wrong direction.
Now it said unable to find next slot.
Even though i had fixed the wrong direction, and the arrows showed correctly.
I had to completely remove all belts between the slots for it to update/find the next slot

[MWRGaming]

Search the line to the next station for any backwards or unconnected corners

[Stephen777]

This has been quite a pain for myself as well.

[Hephaistos]

This still needs to be fixed. Even an experienced player will get this when rebuilding the factory and reusing parts of the belt and it's an annoying thing.

[jonbrave]

A new decade dawns, time to fix now?

[Московский Кот]

no have same problerm!! its hell i want to return money, its not posible to play - with wrong conveyr position and aslo next slot not found