shuttles stuck in a useless loop

[hopdevil007]

My shuttles pick up resources from a storage building (set to zero desired) and transport them to a depot (set to 60 desired).

Then, they instantly land, pick up the exact resources they just dropped off, and return them to the original storage building. They are doing this non-stop.

The machine parts factory sits idle while metal flies in circles outside of the dome.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a bug?

 

[Foefaller]

Does the second storage already have 60? Might be that it considers said resource overflow.

Might be easier to just demolish that first storage.

 

[hopdevil007]

It had 60 and was working just fine. Then, once the MPF was built the shuttles drained the depot and started the loop. If I drop off metal in a transporter they will drain it to zero.

 

[Foefaller]

Okay.

Other troubleshooting ideas:

-Is the MPF still within Drone range?
-Is there something at the set-to-zero storage that also uses/needs metal? Specifically, something that has a higher priority than the MPF?
-Speaking of, what is the priority set for the MPF?
-Have you tried demolishing and rebuilding one or both depots, or disabling shuttle access?

If none of these things obviously fix it (and if the last one did) you might report it as a bug.

 

[Xeorm]

Sounds like a bug of sorts? I'd suggest putting more metal into the system if nothing else. Should stop it. Or tell one of the storages to not accept shuttles.

 

[hopdevil007]

It's a bug. A GAME BREAKING bug. And it's there even after I put down additional money for paid DLC. I'm just about done with Paradox. This is absurd. In any other Industry they would be staring down the barrel of a lawsuit for this sort of chicanery.

 

[SillySMS]

It's a bug. A GAME BREAKING bug. And it's there even after I put down additional money for paid DLC. I'm just about done with Paradox. This is absurd. In any other Industry they would be staring down the barrel of a lawsuit for this sort of chicanery.

It is software. It will have bugs. Almost any video game of any complexity, including AAA titles, has bugs.

There is a bug report subforum, where you should report the bug and upload a save game so Haemimont can take a look at it.

 

[KDubya]

What happens if you don't set the desired amount to zero but instead use the default '3'?

The only adjustment on storage that I ever use is 'no fuel' in any universal storage and I've never had any issues.

 

[Lady Nasse]

So I wanna say that I have this same problem. It's really frustrating because it makes it so hard to build anything new. The shuttles drop a resource, and then instantly another shuttle takes it back. My big storages are set to 0, and my other storages are set to 6. But some resources they'll overstock the mini storages, and others they won't? It's so weird.