Warehouses can have 4 incoming feeds, and also can have 4 outgoing feeds.
Factories can have 2 incoming feeds, but only 1 outgoing feed. The robotic
center is the same way. The galactic trade center has only 4 incoming feeds,
so if you're looking to fill one up, you'll need to swap around your incoming
feeds, since there are considerably more than 4 products that can be stored in
them. Obviously, production buildings (hydroponics, ore processors, gas
extractors and the like), can have only 1 outgoing feed, but interestingly
enough, they can have incoming feeds as well, though I haven't a clue why
that's built that way, must be just an artifact of the code used to build them
I'd guess, since there's no need to feed such buildings themselves. Now, if
you could use warehouses like an assembly line, (I.E. ore processor 1 feeds
warehouse 1, and warehouse 1 feeds warehouse 5, because ore extractor is too
far from warehouse 5, but warehouse1 can reach it, that would make our lives a
whole lot easier. Unfortunately, that's not an option though. You can also
feed extracted elements to living quarters, (again, no clue why, it's not like
they can use them), so apparently, there's a bit of code reuse going on, even
where it doesn't make sense to do so.
But, even with all that confusion, the game is still generally playable. The
real thing we're missing is a way to tell how far away something is from
something else, that would solve a lot of logistics problems. I have noticed
though, that when you tap connect on a building, it does place the possible
connection points in order by how far away the other buildings are. This
makes for some interesting speculation, because sometimes buildings I would be
sure are out of range show up on the list, and sometimes, they're way closer
than buildings that are only one or two squares away according to voiceover,
so do keep that in mind, it may help you design your layouts better if you can
get ahandle on that kind of information.
There's been times I tore down the whole set of connections I had, and
redistributed them based on how close buildings were to one another, even
though voiceover claims they're many many squares away, and it allows me to
keep the lines moving better that way.
Also, if you can, you want to accumulate 100 energy cells, then find yourself
a space station, and buy the second grade of ship. That allows you to colonize
two planets at a time, so you have something to do while waiting for a planet
to build things after you've got it's infrastructure all setup. There's a
level requirement for buying that second spaceship, but I don't remember what
it is, level 10 or 20, not sure which, but I didn't know about it until I was
almost to level 30, so there's that.
On 3/8/2023 5:13 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Once factories get connected to warehouses a message sometimes comes up
claiming warehouse is invalid for products. I found restarting the game
fixed this problem in one instance since after that no error beep came up
when passing through the factory in question. I also found out warehouses
can have more than one input of the product they store once set up and
product is selected with the first connection or inside the warehouse
dialog.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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