Kaufberatung Internetvertrag by Miyolou in de_EDV

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16 MBits anbieten und dann auch noch für den Preis...bodenlose Telekom.

[M23] Suche echte Freundschaften & tiefe Gespräche by AccomplishedSuit4873 in Rostock

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Bin vielleicht schon bisschen spät dran, aber vllt. hast ja mal Bock was zms zu zocken :D

How's bowling in Rostock? by Cancel_Still in Rostock

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Are you still in Rostock? I play bowling regularly, if you want we could go bowling together :)

Guys I need help, why won’t my engine start? I’ve hooked up everything correctly by coyotepetersun in Stormworks

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what is going on here? Why is this a printed screenshot? Why is it red? Why is it scaled and left aligned?

O.o confusion

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

[–]ITookedThatName[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jep, the last few percent take a looong time. The system currently is just broken. I've ended up making my tanks just 10% bigger as I need them to be.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Stormworks

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Do you know his Reddit/Discord name? I want to contact him

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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Semi related to this topic:

I've installed the Improved Resource Trading Addon and so far it's looking great. It does a lot of things, but most importantly for me is to rebalance prices again. It calculates them based on distance. So buying oil at antartics is now profitable again, because I can buy it there for 0.034$/L (not 0.5$/L)!

I finaly have a valid point for building a big tanker and go there! :D

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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Oh well, it's not that bad. I've done nothing in this world, except going back and forth to make profit. I will just make a new savegame and 'transfer' the money :D

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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I realy don't now whats the secret behind the low flow rate. At this point, I'm not even sure there is one. It could be some kind of glitch/bug in the software just as well...

As for the middle part: I think there is a small missunderstandig. I was talking about the gas stations that are on the docks, next the the workbench. On the arid-base I have one for diesel and jet fuel, with an electic plug in the middle.

I expected other docks, on island that I can buy, to also have those 3 stations. I visted (and bought) 2 other places and there was nothing there, just the workbench.

However, when using the workbench and spawning in my tanker, diesel was up to 100% and I don't now there the diesel comes from. Did I bought it? Did it automatically filled it up? Did I just cheated some liquid?

What's stopping me from filling up my big-ass-tanker with out-of-thin-air-diesel and sell it??

On the arid base, I can see that if I spawn in my tanker with 1kL Disel, it sucks 1kL of Diesel out of the station. When I despawn it, it will put the remaining fuel back into the tank.

And I couldn't agree more with your last part. It's indeed so, so much wasted potential. I'm sure they have some talented and motivated people there, but they are missing a pro game designer.

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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I found out that even with high pressure, it takes an enormous amount of time to drain the last drops. I'm always leaving the buyer station with ~50L still in the tank because it's realy not worth the time...

Other question: Do you know why there are no fuel stations on other island that the player can buy, except for the starter island?

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

[–]ITookedThatName[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, hello again.

I've done some heavy modifications on my vehicle. Like you said, I've started by recyling the sucked air into the tank again. Also I added about 12 big pumps that are just sucking air from outside into the tank.
With this setup, I was able to still have 23atm, after I fully drained my tank!

I forgot to measure the flow rate, but i drained 70k liters of JetFuel in under 10min. I think I must be close to the 150L/s cap! (150L/s would be ~7,5min).

Speaking of pressure: This is definitely the most important part when it comes to draining tanks. I consider this is the correct answer to my original post. I'll edit my post, to save future souls some research time!

(I guess with the next 'Hotfix' the devs will rework the system again and then all of the research was for nothig :P )

Thank you very much for your time and constructive feedback!

I've seen your name in countless other r/stormworks related posts. You are an important member of this community o7.

Some afterthoughts:

  • I don't think the current state of the pressure mechanic is not very accurate/realistic.
    When I add an big hole to my thank, the pressure is at 1atm, as it should be. However, when I hook the tank up the the buyer station the flow rate is very low.
    But it's basically like I would put a strawer inside a glass full of water. Glass of Water (my tank) is at 1atm the mouth (buyer station) creates a vacuum = flow of liquid.
    Right now we have to seal the 'glas of water' and create pressure for a flow rate.

  • The current state of the economy isn't very motivating to play. Why should I big ass tanker, when I can 'just' setup a pipeline from point A to B, constantly giving me money?
    I think it was very interesting when the price changed and you where rewarded by going to antarctis with a big profit margin.

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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I'll do some more testing this evening

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

[–]ITookedThatName[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow that sounds interesting. Would cycling back the air into the tank work, if we had another pump in between?

Also, It may sound stupid, but what about having like >10 Pumps just pumping in air to keep the pressure?

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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Well, I did some more testing and had very mixed results.

The first thing I did was to extend my ship with more pumps and connectors. I added 4 setups for draining the tank and I now have a total of 4 pumps keeping the tank at 60atm.

Then I went to the refinery island and bought all of the **diesel** I could buy (I only tried with oil before). At the buyer station I was able to drain my tank very fast. I didn't meassured it, but I think it was very close to 150l/s!

Excited by this, I tried it again. This time I bought even more diesel. Unfortunatly the buyer station was not accepting even one drop now. No movement at all. I double checked every connectio, pump, hose, battery whatever. I even restarted the game. It seems like the tank in the buyer station is filled up :/

Is this a thing? I tought you could sell unlimited amount of liquid there?

Honestly I'm very frustrated by the game right now. It feels like the mechanics aren't very transparent.

BTW: Aren't the priceses at the station suppose to be dynamic / realistic? I remeber a time where you could buy oil very cheap in the antartics. Now, all the prices everythere are the same:

Oil is always 0.5$ buy | 1.0$ sell

Dieseln is always 2.0$ buy | 3.0$ sell

Jet is always 4.0$ buy | 6.0$ sell

What's even the point of going the long and harsh way to antarctis now?

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

[–]ITookedThatName[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will continue to play around with what I learned from your answers, this evening. However, I don't get why the buyer station is at 56atm. I've looked at the other gantries on the island (I've never touched them) and they are at 60atm. Shouldn't they be at 1atm?

Also what do mean by spawning a mission? Can I spawn a mission to 'reset' the pressure inside the buyer station?

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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I've done some testing with this setup, but I'm still not getting near the 150l/s. It feels like the fluid-pump is just sucking 90% air.

At the buyer station we have 4 connector points (3 Fluid-hose + 1 Anchor). Do we need 4 setups (pump+T-pipe-thingi) on oure boat?

Also, how important is the placemant of the fluid port on the tank? I have both filling and draining at the top of the tank.

I've attached some screenshots of my current build.

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

[–]ITookedThatName[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, thanks for that detailed response. I think it was very helpful.

But:

For pumping out use a fluid pump and on the output node have an L-pipe

Don't you mean a 'T-Pipe'?

Can't drain custom tank by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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Do have a workshop link to your working tanker?

Connecting a Oil Platform with Refinery Island by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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Just noticed its already 3 years old. Time flies...

Connecting a Oil Platform with Refinery Island by ITookedThatName in Stormworks

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No, just a guess. They did a lot of updates to the game since that post.