oil pump issues

[ottoVonRibbentrop]

it is really hard to read the real value of pumped oil, it should show an average instead of the instant value
also sometimes it say, for no reasons, destination don't need oil or source is not sending oil, sometimes it's true sometimes not
I am not able to pump oil between 2 oil storage, it say destination don't need resources, but tank is empty at destination
I saw loading bitume from a fuel tank, when the truck had load anything, I had to change to load fuel

[archiver213]

first destination doesnt need oil yes/no, all depends on storage or pumpng station is full or not.
second you cant pump between 2 oil storage tanks, pumping station can pump from source into 3 separate tanks.
third when trying to load either fuel or bitume, you have to have 2 separate vehicles ( truck or train) as you cant mix them for shipping. lots of great videos on youtube to see alot of the mechanics used in game.

[ottoVonRibbentrop]

it should be possible to pump from a storage tank to another, why not?
I know you cannot mix liquids, it's obvious.

you cannot tell me that pumps works well or that it's nice to see they stutters, it should be a continous flow I think

[Jolie Rouge]

Tank--------pipepump-------tank---------oilwell

[ottoVonRibbentrop]

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge:

Tank--------pipepump-------tank---------oilwell

thx, I am not dumb, I did it, I put a pump between the tanks, it refuse to pump oil to destination claiming destination, and empty tank, do not need oil

[ottoVonRibbentrop]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/785230361342972061/EBEE8912F212DE1E92E8E5E16FE2F206505BB47D/

I had to bypass the tank and go directly to the other pump, but now i have to switch manually whre i want to pump oil, before it was going to the tank and from the tank to the other to pumps, tank was full since factories didn't need more oil, so it was supposed to pump it to the other tank (up in the map, there's 2 tanks near the oil refinery), it did not pump, saying destination do not require resources

[-Z- Guderian]

Maybe not dump but for sure there has to be a mistake in your layout.

It works fine for me - see screenshot
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198056240758/screenshot/789733960970383728

- possibly you mixed up input and output of the connections
- for example trying to transfere from a fueltank to a bitumentank
- no energy supply (tanks pumps)

[forged73]

From what I have noticed, if you connect the tanks in series with pipelines (as can bee seen on upper screenshot), each subsequent one is filled only when the previous one is fully filled.
(but maybe I am wrong, again :P)

[maxiusdor]

It's really hard to to cross the piplines with a road. That is not very realistic.

[forged73]

It is not at all. When you build pipelines use "Q' and "E" keys.
Same are used for building bridges and tunnels.

[ottoVonRibbentrop]

Originally posted by forged73:

From what I have noticed, if you connect the tanks in series with pipelines (as can bee seen on upper screenshot), each subsequent one is filled only when the previous one is fully filled.
(but maybe I am wrong, again :P)

That could explain it, but source tank was filled 100%, it could be that since it was also providing oil to the factories (which in turn was 100% filled) something broke the mechanic. It has to be improved in any case, all the system, oil pumps have issues.

[gjvanderwolf]

Originally posted by ottoVonRibbentrop:

Originally posted by forged73:

From what I have noticed, if you connect the tanks in series with pipelines (as can bee seen on upper screenshot), each subsequent one is filled only when the previous one is fully filled.
(but maybe I am wrong, again :P)

That could explain it, but source tank was filled 100%, it could be that since it was also providing oil to the factories (which in turn was 100% filled) something broke the mechanic. It has to be improved in any case, all the system, oil pumps have issues.

It could be that the oil pipelines and all the other stuff still have unhandled quirks in them. I know that I struggled with the oil pumping and refining. Until now I never managed to get the oil refining and distribution up and running smoothly. I am still struggling to get my running smoothly since am without workers lots of times. I seem to be unable to keep people at work. That disrupts the whole thing. So that makes me uncertain if the whole oil producing and refining is flawed.

The behavior of the oiltanks and the pumping from the oil wells to the storage is something that I experienced as well. As I said I was unable to keep my refinery running so it might influenced the other components behavior.

[archiver213]

Originally posted by -Z- Guderian:

Maybe not dump but for sure there has to be a mistake in your layout.

It works fine for me - see screenshot
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198056240758/screenshot/789733960970383728

- possibly you mixed up input and output of the connections
- for example trying to transfere from a fueltank to a bitumentank
- no energy supply (tanks pumps)

no wonder it doesnt work here's a proper layout which works 100%
https://nsa40.casimages.com/img/2019/06/16/190616045357662349.png

[archiver213]

Originally posted by gjvanderwolf:

Originally posted by ottoVonRibbentrop:

That could explain it, but source tank was filled 100%, it could be that since it was also providing oil to the factories (which in turn was 100% filled) something broke the mechanic. It has to be improved in any case, all the system, oil pumps have issues.

It could be that the oil pipelines and all the other stuff still have unhandled quirks in them. I know that I struggled with the oil pumping and refining. Until now I never managed to get the oil refining and distribution up and running smoothly. I am still struggling to get my running smoothly since am without workers lots of times. I seem to be unable to keep people at work. That disrupts the whole thing. So that makes me uncertain if the whole oil producing and refining is flawed.

The behavior of the oiltanks and the pumping from the oil wells to the storage is something that I experienced as well. As I said I was unable to keep my refinery running so it might influenced the other components behavior.

Refinery setup working fine.
https://nsa40.casimages.com/img/2019/06/16/190616045521657691.png

[ottoVonRibbentrop]

You just seems to don't understand my point... I know how to build pipelines and all, in fact I do a lot of money with this, and everything works well, except that node... which now I removed (but it was of course a bug, I am not stupid, god sake, like I want to mix fuel with bitumen)
The indicators on the pumps are just wrong, the switches too, and, again, they should pump in a continuous way, not stuttering.

[ottoVonRibbentrop]

Here a small vid, so maybe you will agree...

https://youtu.be/0DihStpG9WY