Ishina Fel
Caldari Terra Incognita Black Star Alliance
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Posted - 2011.01.31 14:30:00 -
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Edited by: Ishina Fel on 31/01/2011 14:36:08
Dear Team PI,
I really like the changes, but I'm observing odd behavior with Extractor Heads and the Heat Map. I haven't submitted a bug report yet, because I don't know how to reproduce it.
Let's say that here are several minor hotspots in range of my ECU. These hotspots may move a bit over time, deplete and refill, a nugget may appear or disappear - all this works well, and it requires me to come back every day and adjust the position of the Extractor Heads. That's when I noticed this behavior by pure chance.
Let's say I have 4 Extractor Heads on one or more hotspots, nicely in the white center. None of them overlap. Now, chances are that if I move one Head away from a hotspot to a specific spot nearby, the total resource intake shown in the ECU will increase, sometimes by a large amount. I sometimes need to blindly move the Head around a bit to find a good spot, but I have had instances of moving an Extractor Head away from a white hotspot into the black middle of nowhere and seeing total resource intake (the sum of all 4 Heads) increase by as much as 15%-20%.
Okay, I said to myself, I have Planetology 5 and Adv. Planetology 4, so only 9 out of 10 possible levels. Clearly the Heat Map is wrong and the actual hotspot is elsewhere. I then proceeded to move more Extractor Heads over to where I detected that large spike. But no - doing so vastly decreases total output. Suddenly, every Head behaves exactly like I expected, bringing maximum output only smack-dab in the white hotspot center indicated by the Heat Map. Also, oftentimes the mysterious spikes are further away from any actual hotspot than they should be, if Planetology really was the culprit, because I do have 9 out of 10 levels and therefore near-perfect scanning.
This means that the Heat Map is correct after all, but I still get this effect that with one single Extractor Head I can move away from the others at random and get increased total yields.
Five of my planets do this on a daily basis, the sixth has never shown this effect at all.
What gives?
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