Space Engineers

Space Engineers

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Atomsk 12 Jan, 2015 @ 5:14am
Platinum bug?
So, I'm working on building my first large ship. I have nine refineries going non-stop with tens-of-thousands of every ore stockpiled. I have a few thousand of every component I need to make the ship that I am planning. Except for thruster components... The bottleneck is platinum ingots.

I have all of my refineries (except one that is refining uranium) making platinum ingots. I turned the game on about an hour ago and was just letting them work. I just checked and each of my refineries now has a whopping 5 platinum ingots.

The large ship I'm wanting to build uses a single large thruster and around 10 small thrusters.

The large thruster alone calls for 380 platinum ingots. Some quick math tells me that it will take almost 10 hours real time for my 8 refineries going non-stop on platinum to reach that quota. That doesn't even count how long it will take to refine the platinum for the small thrusters.

My math:
8 refineries produced 5 platinum ingots each in roughly an hour = 40 platinum/hour
Large thruster needs 380 platinum ingots
380 / 40 = 9.5 (hours to refine 380 platinum ingots with 8 refineries going)

A few additional details:
Nothing is pulling platinum. No assemblers, connectors or anything else. I have checked septuple times.

I have poured over my sorting commands a dozen times (very tedious) and absolutly nothing is set to pull platinum ingots. I went to far as to cut ingot related commands out of every single thing I have built and triple check that all convayor systems were set to off. I would bet a lot that I did not miss anything.

I can watch the refinery slowly bump up it's ingot count by .01 every 7-8 seconds, and it never goes down. That's .08 bars per minute...

Do the math on that and it comes out to a bit over 5 ingots per hour. That is insane...

This can't be how the game plays normally is it? This is the only mod I have installed so I believe it is causing this.

Anyone else having this problem or know of something to check that I didn't mention? This has turned my game into a space idle simulator.. If I wanted that I'd go scrounge around on Kongragate or something..
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Tiger 21 Feb, 2015 @ 12:29pm 
Bump your refining speed up to the max in the world's settings, and you'll process about 5 platinum ingots every minute, per refinery.

Could also be your refineries are fighting for the same slices of the same ore pie. Try changing them to draw, say, 500 ore only, and remove any split operators. Split bogs things down if it finds more than 2 to 4 things trying to split a single source, and it glitches out after 8.
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