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Well basically I am trying to dish out enough copper cables for a rather long green/red/blue CPU line, but I keep failing. However in the process I kept noticing that the lane that should use less copper cables per minute either uses more, actually doesn't produce slower - I don't know

In the image I mean the right lane. I stacked tons of productivity mods on that lane so I would of course expect copper cables to actually stack up there since I need less and produce slower across almost the whole side. However that isn't true watching and resetting the lane again and again and again it balances out to the copper cable line on the left stacking up and the right side being starved although buildwise they are symmetric for basically the most part and the right side is full of productivity 3 things.

Can someone explain to me what happens and maybe give a pointer or two how to get enough cables out? I had problems with the cables even back when it was only a couple of green/red CPUs.




http://imgur.com/vIIomlo

Can you provide a save for better analysis ?

You only have 3 green circuit assembling machines running on the left side, because the 4th does not have iron.

DaveMcW wrote:You only have 3 green circuit assembling machines running on the left side, because the 4th does not have iron.

Wow nice catch

What seriously I am gonna check

Nice catch, that was right but didn't change anything (those 2 green things are new anyway and I noticed the behaviour before them even existing). Actually the left side even has a copper factory kinda not working since the throughput is too high and they can't lay down the copper cables (although there are enough holes).

I know the setup has a lot of problems, there is probably no good way to do it without direct insertion. The limitation of grabbing one and putting it down is too severe.

I will hunt down the save-game and upload it.