paint launcher speed asymmetry | Shapez 2 | Page 1

somber blade Aug 30, 2024, 5:32 AM

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I have found that paint launchers facing East are more 'proactive' than ones facing West.

I've attached an animated GIF of a throughput problem this is causing. Here is my Crystal Generator factory... you can see that the right side (fed by East-facing paint launchers) runs at full speed, whereas the left side (fed by West-facing launchers) has like 3/4 throughput. The East-facing launchers send new paint before it is needed (so no throughput is lost), whereas the West-facing ones wait until the destination is empty, thus causing the Crystal Generators to pause for lack of paint.

Some might suspect this to be a mere Bug... but personally I have an inkling that some Zax are involved.

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Sorry, here's the blueprint code for this factory...

📎 paint_launcher_asymmetry.txt

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The GIF was kind of large, so I recorded an mp4 instead (3x smaller)... feel free to delete the GIF if it's a problem!

sterile marten Aug 30, 2024, 7:59 AM

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somber blade I have found that paint launchers facing East are more 'proactive' than ones fac...

the ones on the right are only getting 3 blobs of paint

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the bottom one on the right is a launcher, not a catcher

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user error.

stable cairn Aug 30, 2024, 8:20 AM

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sterile marten the ones on the right are only getting 3 blobs of paint

Thank you! It is so hard to catch these things sometimes. Indeed this seems to be a placement error.

I was testing the Fluid Launcher efficiencies and found no issue. 😅

cyan lionBOT Aug 30, 2024, 8:40 AM

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We are closing this report as "not a bug" in our system.

#paint launcher speed asymmetry