#A way to setup network resource flow

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digital oriole
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Today if you have your water tanks filled, and you go make food, the Pumps engages and the Tanks are never touched.

Add a switch that allow us the setup how we want the network to behave, if we want the Tanks to deplete to a certain level first before engaging the Pumps or if we want it to be as it is now, a backup for when there is no Power or damage or any reason why production stopped.

Today there is little reason to have a Tank since production from the Pumps happen regardless.

I do control it manually today with an extender, I just turn off the Pumps. But that is not ideal.

thick jacinth
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You can drain water quicker than the pumps refill, so tanks are very useful in those cases. Just like batteries and power!

noble drift
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sounds like you want an automation cable like Oxygen not included

plush parcel
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Make some of the 6min food. It’ll deplete your tank and pull from the pump. I had 1 tank and 1 purifier and made about ten or so of the 6min food and my tank went empty. Had to build a 2nd purifier just so it would stop saying pause waiting for resources.

harsh pasture
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One solution is to have the pumps route THROUGH the tanks.

I'm hoping some logistics comes with data cables. I feel like the game needs it.

digital oriole
harsh pasture
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I don't believe that's true. Cable throughput limits are 72,000 L/h, right? I can get that out of a tank.

There are glitches available to put more through a cable, EG when you route more than one source to more than one destination without daisy-chaining, (I think,) but the intended limit seems to 72,000 L/H.

digital oriole
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well from extenders I get 150k L/H 🤷‍♂️ soooooo

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Why would I limit myself to 72k?

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and 150 is just because I have 16 purifiers they can do each 10k

harsh pasture
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I assume they head toward multiple tank or machine inputs that aren't daisy-chained, but have separate inputs? That's the most reliable way I know to trigger the glitch.

You're seeing the glitch I mentioned where two outputs exist on one size of a network of connections, and two inputs exist on the other end, and they're finding individual paths with a different source and destination, even though they go through the same bottleneck. separate paths through the network without realizing there's a bottleneck.

Tanks and machines don't have an output limit, cables just have a throughput limit that the machines are not always respecting.

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Also, if you're at Laz, the golden ratio is just a smidge over 3.5 purifiers to 1 pump, so fourteen purifiers to four pumps.