Your suggestion allows you to determine that a particular (desired) throughput cannot be exceeded. It is an upper bound, so it can tell you when it is definitely insufficient


Yes, this is exactly the desired use case.


what you really want to trigger on is throughput including the effect of ...

You can measure throughput by wiring up the belts carrying the ore away from the patch or by observing the tightness of the belts.


Right, and I can see some use for that, but it is not what your suggestion provides for oil fields.

Your suggestion is to provide the maximum output rate, which ...

One thing this thread seems to have missed is that miners and pump jacks both display the exact same info in their panels, the only difference comes if they're mining an infinite resource vs a finite one. If you put a mining drill on infinite ores, it'll show the same output per second in it's ...

The current value is misleading in representing the actual output of the pumpjack.

I agree it is misleading but the rate reported is more like a representation of the amount of resource left, just like mining drills.


Maybe it should be displayed as a % rather than a rate.


The tooltip ...

the rate reported is more like a representation of the amount of resource left, just like mining drills.



can you "determine when throughput is insufficient" with mining drills?


You can't compare the expected value of miners and pumpjack because one is showing total resources remaining ...

TL;DR
Modify the pumpjack expected resources value to reflect the actual output instead of the base yield.

What ?
Pumpjack expected resources value in the tooltip panel and circuit network should be changed to reflect the actual output. In the below image the base yield (9.5/s) is shown ...