Soap?

[RedWagnum]

Is there a way to stockpile soap? My colony has about 2500 settlers. I have 14 electrified Medical facilities, 13 within range of a Factory Unit so 170% daytime efficiency and I keep high stock on milk and herbs. I set all but one med facility to produce soap and watch the production counter bounce up and down between 100 and 300 (production limit set to 2000 units). I have never been able to complete a demand for soap (usually demanding 2000 bars or so) because the soap gets taken as fast as I can make it. One med facility has no problem keeping up with medicine or iodine pills but 13 cannot keep up with soap. Do I really need to build another dozen or so to try to stockpile soap?

[beebopper]

Yeah I think soap is slightly unbalanced..

The only way I've been able to 'get ahead' with soap is to wait until it's offered in a trade and buy it up...
Then production seems to stay inline with demand.. but has always been a high priority to buy it as soon as it is offered in a trade.
Just means your going to run a bit behind for a bit... I guess they like to stay clean ;)

[RedWagnum]

Thanks @Beebopper. I just discovered that. Unfortunately soap is very rarely offered on a trade. Saw soap once a while back but didn't think I needed it (or I needed something else worse, don't recall) so I skipped it. Saw soap again yesterday and snapped it up, then like an idiot used it on the next demand! Hopefully it will come up for trade again soon.

[beebopper]

yeah I tend to do any other demand beside the soap as it so hard to stay infront of.. I just keep it for the med facilities and general use.

[Zourin]

Toggle your medicine producer over to soap for a while, then back later, or just build yet another hospital. It's not unusual to have two for soap, one for medicine, and one for iodine pills.

[macragge]

well, he said that he has 13!! medical facilities.. and 12 of them are producing soap @Zourin

[Zourin]

Originally posted by macragge:

well, he said that he has 13!! medical facilities.. and 12 of them are producing soap @Zourin

Then it's a logistic problem, not a production problem. I have no problems producing soap for half his pop with only 4 medical facilties, and only two of them making soap.

[beebopper]

Originally posted by Zourin:

Originally posted by macragge:

well, he said that he has 13!! medical facilities.. and 12 of them are producing soap @Zourin

Then it's a logistic problem, not a production problem. I have no problems producing soap for half his pop with only 4 medical facilties, and only two of them making soap.

Please enlighten us..

show a screenshot showing this and maybe give an example of what your doing.. I sure would like to learn if this is a fact.

currently I have 11k pop and 57 MF's and about 20 producing soap but can not keep up with demand (not the prosperity demands)
I am currently about 3.5k infront but I traded for them.

even switching over the rest to soap does not seem to put me ahead after 50 seasons...

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