16.6: ghosts taking an excessively long time to construct

[floored1585]

Hello!

I am having an issue where ghost rails (or anything really) occasionally take a very long time to complete (>10 minutes at times). This is with nothing else in the construction queue that I can see, and I have materials and bots. I am a very long way from spawn (-40,000 or so), but other than that I can't think of anything unusual.

I searched through the forum but didn't find anything other than a similar issue that was caused by a large construction queue (not the case here that I can see).

[Loewchen]

The most common cause is, that you abandoned the robots that got tasked with the job at some point and now they first need to get back to you.

[floored1585]

The most common cause is, that you abandoned the robots that got tasked with the job at some point and now they first need to get back to you.

Oh, interesting. Is there a way to identify and destroy them? This is entirely possible since I've traveled a long way.

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. You have robots flying from the start of the map over to you that you left behind on your trip over to where you're at now: https://i.imgur.com/6UMQ0MT.png

The 2 pink dots are 2 construction robots trying to make their way back to your inventory.

[Ranakastrasz]

You can remove your personal roboports. They will then go to normal roboports, and you will have to get new ones, but it should reset.

[floored1585]

Thanks a ton. Hopefully this can help someone else searching for a solution in the future!