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Meat and Milk Collectors (and https linking too)

A couple of tests ago, a number of Glitches in the FSR&F group discovered that our collectors seemed to be filling at different rates from one another so we ran a quick and dirty check during the last test.  Even allowing for a bit of variation in the time that people checked their collectors, the numbers are everywhere.  Basically, we're seeing anywhere from 0.39-6.5 meat produced per pig per RL hour and 0.4-14 milk produced per butterfly per hour with the highest production rates being seen for people with the most collectors (not necessarily the most animals as the worst production rates were with # of pigs/butterflies close to the highest rates).  Since we don't know what the exact relationship between # of animals and production rate is supposed to be (thought it'd be linear, but not seeing that), we were wondering if maybe there's a bit of a bug in how the collectors are behaving.

All of the data was reported in this thread and the data collated into this spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvA1p4U1Ia0EdFJfaFdtQjlOcHVQczJqQzZIc3JLSWc&hl=en_US&authkey=CMvFlJ8I#gid=0

(Must copy and paste the URL to view.  Posting or linking to https pages results in the link getting messed up.  Here's the same page using the link function.)

Posted 18 months ago by Marebito Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • The https linking should be fixed now. The other parts (great research!) will need some more time to look at. :)
    Posted 18 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Following up on this bug (bugs?), from numbers reported this test and last as well as observing collectors as they filled, it appears that the high-end of the production scale is being caused by improper overflow of product into secondary+ collectors.  So, while it might take ~4 hours for the first collector to fill (in my case), rather than each subsequent collector taking a similar 4 hours, it only takes 4 hours for all other collectors to fill (give or take a collection cycle or two).  (That's 10 full collectors in ~8 hours for me.)  Hope this helps.  :)

    P.S. While quashing bugs is great, I think RM's abysmal production rate (0.4-0.5 meat/milk per animal per hour) is much more important.  *nods*  Please don't worry about us high production rate folks, as I'm sure we can manage until after her problem's been taken care of.  :P
    Posted 18 months ago by Marebito Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't access the spreadsheet, but I'll chime in that I've noticed that my four milk collectors produce well, while my five meat collectors are slow.

    I had wondered whether this was due to the fact that butterflies travel faster than pigs, so I thought maybe they were passing the collectors more frequently, and that this was the source of the difference. But now I wonder!
    Posted 18 months ago by clare Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There are several variables that factor into collection rates for these items. Animals in the location cannot be sad; piggies need to be full to produce meat when a collector starts; if a collector starts it's collect run and there is a closer, non full collector, the first one will not collect anything.
    Posted 18 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My animals are not sad, my feeders are full. My numbers: still bloody rotten. ARGH!
    Posted 18 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have not been keeping spreadsheets, but my meat and milk collectors collect at very different rates.

    I have 12 each of butterflies and pigs, 2 feeders kept topped up, 4 meat collectors, and 5 milk collectors (keep meaning to grab another meat collector).

    The meats are full almost every time I go home.  In particular, if I leave one collector full every time, the other 3 fill super fast.  The milk is super slow.  I often come home to a total of about 15 milk, while 150 extra meat has piled up.  I tried leaving a milk collector full, to see if that would help, but it's still filling agonizingly slowly.  

    This is in Alakol.  Strangely, this is reversed from my old home on Doon Way, where milk filled up really fast, and meat not so much.  Didn't have as many animals then, and only 1-2 collectors of each type.  In both locations, animals seem to be perfectly happy.

    So, I'm baffled!  I would assume a bit of luck involved, but the meat is *consistently* WAY faster than the milk.
    Posted 18 months ago by larky lion Subscriber! | Permalink