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Automation & Mining Stations - 12/30/2013 5:47:52 PM   
mxmissile

 

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Status: offline 		Sorry for all the newb questions...

Automation is queuing up mining stations on some planets, but I cannot figure out how to disable that. It's not doing it on *all* planets as far as I can tell, just some. Anyway to disable that completely?
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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 12/30/2013 5:54:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi mxmissle, look under empire settings , top row of buttons on left.
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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 12/30/2013 6:49:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another way to stop mining bases from auto upgrading is to go to the design ships section, turn off all "auto" in the two columns to the far right (the ones relating to mine designs. Alos, when the dialog window comes up, telling you your researchers have a new tech, and asking you if you want to auto implement these changes in your current ships/bases, respond with 'no.' happy new year.

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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 12/30/2013 7:26:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		mxmissile, are you talking about mining stations being queued up for a retrofit or being queued up to be built? Or do you mean that ships are queuing up to dock with the mining stations?

PS Don't worry about 'newb' questions.

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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 12/30/2013 7:40:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		When you queue a base, the order directly move to the nearest construction ship.
So far i know there is no way to individualy remove a single queued order from the ship. You just can clear all orders.
You need to browse through the construction ships (press Y, or sort the ship window by construction yard) and look who got the order, then clear his queued orders.

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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 12/30/2013 8:19:33 PM   
mxmissile

 

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Status: offline 		I'm talking about when a mining station is being queued to be built, not upgraded. Somehow stations are being queued to be built without my approval, that is what I am trying to stop.


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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 12/30/2013 8:35:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mxmissile

I'm talking about when a mining station is being queued to be built, not upgraded. Somehow stations are being queued to be built without my approval, that is what I am trying to stop.




Ok, well the mining stations are built by constructors, so one way to control that is to take manual control of the constructors - that way, they only build what you want. If you leave the constructors on auto, I'm not sure you can control what they build - maybe others have some ideas about that.

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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 12/31/2013 6:43:53 AM   
Canute0

 

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Status: offline 		He said queued orders. Constructors on auto. don't queue their own order they decide what to build when they are idle.

Queued orders only comes when he order to build a station somewhere by clicking at the icon at the info window down left while he select a planet/object or use the expansion planer.
And i already wrote how to find an cancel these orders.

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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 12/31/2013 11:02:10 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Canute

He said queued orders. Constructors on auto. don't queue their own order they decide what to build when they are idle.

Queued orders only comes when he order to build a station somewhere by clicking at the icon at the info window down left while he select a planet/object or use the expansion planer.
And i already wrote how to find an cancel these orders.



Actually, I'm not quite sure where he said "queued orders", but perhaps my eyesight is failing me.

I thought mxmissile was referring to the message you see on planets, moons, etc., which says "Construction ship queued to build mining stations here". If that were the case, then you will inevitably see these "queued stations" when constructions ships are on auto (as far as I know). Nevertheless, I admit that I may have misunderstood mxmissile's question.

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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 1/1/2014 12:18:08 AM   
mxmissile

 

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Status: offline 		Ok, I figured it out, when constructors are automated, they will give themselves orders to build stations on various planets as your explorers explore new planets, not sure what the criteria is though, cause like I said, not all planets get queued up to have a station built on them automatically.

If constructor automation is disabled (all constructors), no stations get queued to be built. Unless of course I do it.

IMO, there should be a mid-level of constructor automation, one that the constructor will pick up queued jobs and do them but NOT create new jobs.


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RE: Automation & Mining Stations - 1/1/2014 9:40:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		You can do this using the "Queue next job" option and planify many constructions.

If your construction ship is set to manual, he will wait for new orders when he has finished planified jobs.

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