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A simple condition to let PI Processors only fill the Buffer when it makes sense.

Author
Foar Rizel
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-01-16 18:42:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Foar Rizel
Hello !

I have a simple suggestion concerning the various Processors used in PI.

Right now, when you switch your production to something else, you almost always end up with half-filled buffers and material that is either wasted, or takes a lot of production time when you manually have to refill each stage from P1 to P4.

A simple condition that makes the input buffer fill itself only when all the materials an additional cycle needs are available would solve this problem. And from a logic POV: Why should the readied materials in a processor simply vanish when you change to a new schematic ? Simply getting the material stored in the Input Buffer back would be an alternative solution.

Some of you might think it would be better to try a manual fix, well i tried. I don't know how that is possible, but you still end up with half-filled buffers even when the source input is exactly calculated.

I am aware that most PI users tend to stick to a single P4 product and thus never encounter this problem at all, but those who produce P2 material or POS fuel surely recognized it.