#Loss of power, dissolver, and fabricator mass when computer is locked

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pseudo tendon
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Trigger:

  1. Have the game running, not in tower testing
  2. Lock Windows
  3. Wait a few minutes - 5 to 10
  4. Log back into Windows and open the game

Effect:
If you are dissolving materials in the factory, the dissolver will stop working - it looked like items were also still being consumed, just producing nothing
Side effect of the above - the fabrication rate significantly reduces as the stored-up amount of mass will quickly deplete and you will have no saved mass

Additional effect:
Go to the power plant and you will see that the stored energy you had before has been reset to 0
(This may take longer to have happen - it happens to me every time I leave the PC for a few hours)

In both cases I do not have workers doing anything related to those tasks (I do not have a worker starting boosts and I do not have one on the dissolver). As it is I currently only have orders on 4 workers, the rest are idle.

fossil lotus
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its not a game issue, its windows

pseudo tendon
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This shouldn't lead to the loss of poweplant power, dissabling of the dissolver, and the continued loss of resources to the dissolver that shows it is not running

median lantern
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the processing might have bugs, the game might not calculate everything it needs to while trying to catch up

pseudo tendon
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It isn't a calculation thing. The dissolver shows 'inactive' while it has resources to the left (800e15 ore)

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The bank of resources I had already dissolved will be empty, and is NOT slowly filling

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In addition, the power plant will have been 1e12+ and I have 8+ hours left before I need to restart it, and it caps over 4e12. When I come back in, it will be at e6 or e9, depending on how quick I go check it.

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I don't know how to show the power plant one, But I can easily get a pic of the factory one next time I try to make it happen

pseudo tendon
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ok, it is currently happening with additional problems

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I didn't remove the stack and put it back like I normally would...

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and now it is occationally activating on its own and then deactivating again... I am doing nonthing

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I can see my stored mass go up slowly while active, but then drop fast once it swaps back

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it changes at a rate of multiple times a second back and forth then stops on inactive for a bit... then repeats

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my computer was locked for only about 15 seconds

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Additionally, since this was not as long of a time locked, the power plant did not reset

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can I get more info to you guys so you can iunderstand the bug I am describing better?

fossil lotus
pseudo tendon
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This doesn't explain minutes of it showing inactive doing nothing

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At those times, I only fabricate at 9.2e9 with no dissolve contribution

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It isn't because I'm producing

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Aside from that, the dissolve and fab are the same speed allowing you to bank the passive amount... this is the expected behavior... that is not what I am seeing

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To be clear, I understand what you are trying to explain about what basically boils down to differences in how the processing works per tick. The auto mass generation should exceed tick issues for production, which is why the number good up still while dissolving and fabricating... what skylight not happen is extended time of 'inactive' while resources deplete

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And no mass is generated