Resource links and storage/crew limits

[[BFs]Karaya 1]

Hey there, ive been having a blast so far. Ive got a pretty big ship with tons of factories and storage on board and making my money with mining. The thing is, ive set all my storages to be input links to all my factories. But if i take on a big chunk of resources at once, mostly noticable with iron, that doesnt fit into the factory, it wont supply it automatically.

For coils and hypercoils it usually works, but for steel ? Nope. Lots of iron everywhere, and i have to manually tell them to put it into the factory. I thought that the supply links should do that automatically ?


Also with my one ship being so large, im running in to the problem that no matter what i do, i cant get enough to crew to efficiently crew my ship. And i cant fight anything big enough most of the time to increase my fame level. Its around 210, but im missing around 30 crew for suggested levels.
Its not like i can just build a second ship, since the crew max is shared for all of them i think right ?

Any tips ? Am i doing something wrong ?

[Walt Destler]

I would need to see a saved game to figure out what's going on with the factories.

I'm still figuring out the best balance for the crew limit. But FYI, you can change the crew limit in the advanced game options, to make it easier (or harder) to buy more crew.

[[BFs]Karaya 1]

Originally posted by Walt Destler:

I would need to see a saved game to figure out what's going on with the factories.

I'm still figuring out the best balance for the crew limit. But FYI, you can change the crew limit in the advanced game options, to make it easier (or harder) to buy more crew.

How would i best send it to you ?

Ill have a look at the options..does it affect save games as well or only fresh games ?

[Dewa]

Same issue here, i have several storage areas full of iron yet my factory's iron input storage remains empty

Edit : Apparently setting up "supply iron to storage" to 10 priority breaks the supply chain, setting it to 7 and setting "supply iron to factory" to 10 fixed it for me, whoops

[CursedPh4nt0m]

Originally posted by BFsKaraya 1:

Originally posted by Walt Destler:

I would need to see a saved game to figure out what's going on with the factories.

I'm still figuring out the best balance for the crew limit. But FYI, you can change the crew limit in the advanced game options, to make it easier (or harder) to buy more crew.

How would i best send it to you ?

Ill have a look at the options..does it affect save games as well or only fresh games ?

If you have a save loaded you can change them in the settings under 'current game'.

[[BFs]Karaya 1]

Originally posted by Dewa | PTFO:

Same issue here, i have several storage areas full of iron yet my factory's iron input storage remains empty

Edit : Apparently setting up "supply iron to storage" to 10 priority breaks the supply chain, setting it to 7 and setting "supply iron to factory" to 10 fixed it for me, whoops

interesting...ill have a look at that then.

[[BFs]Karaya 1]

I have done it. Supply to storage is at 1, all production priorities at 9 for both groups of crew. Doesnt work. still just sits there until i manually drop it into the factory.

Edit: just tested setting it to 10, doesnt help either.