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Do you remember the old bug ("mechanic feature") where for example Light Bulb factories would not fuction properly when the Filament Factories were too close? The carts from LB wanted to get the resource directly from the FF, but not all FFs were close enough, yet the LB carts didn't want to get the resource from the Warehouse. The solution was to move the FFs farther away from the LBs and thus force the usage of the Warehouse carts.
That trick doesn't seem to work for Typewriters and Lacquer. On paper I overproduce Typewriters by 12 (compared with the consumtion), but still my population of Investors keeps fluctuating, because they don't have enough Typewriters.
On the Chemical Plant/Assembly Line island I overproduce the Lacquer by 20 and the two types of factories are on the distant ends of the island. It still doesn't work. The productivity of Typewriters keeps jumping from half to almost max, they refuse to take the Lacquer from the Warehouse half of the time. I have to admit this is rather irritating.


over 2 years ago - Ubi-Viral - Direct link

@mcetnar @Nova_eXelon Hey! Sorry to hear that you are both experiencing this issue with the items not being picked up by the carts.

I have reached out to our game team to see if we can get to the bottom of this. Once there is an update we will reach back out.

Thank you.

over 2 years ago - Ubi-Orion - Direct link

Hey there folks.

This was passed on to the development team for review and they confirmed that their understanding was this was working as intended.

In the example presented by @Nova_eXelon at least they said this:

"19/950 but 16 are reserved, so they can't be taken by that cart as others have reserved them already, the other 3 were probably added after the cart picked up the 1t corn"

However if you're still not sure it is working as intended a video might better illustrate the problem if this is something any of you would be willing to provide. Thanks!

over 2 years ago - Ubi-TheBerry - Direct link

Hey there guys,

Thank you for getting back to us!

@Asterix201252 - I've responded to and already raised feedback to the team and have also added this discussion on as part of this.

If there's anything more we can help with, please let us know guys!

about 2 years ago - Ubi-WheelyDuck - Direct link

Hey @ksl28,

Thank you for your update,

I am afraid currently I have no update, however when we do have an update you would expect to see it in our announcement section.

In the mean time if there is anything else we can help with just let us know

Many thanks,