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Cyber Baron
Penguins of Destiny
#1 - 2014-06-06 18:37:20 UTC
Hello pilots !

Can someone perhaps explain to me how to LINK silos and General Storage to biochemical reactors ?

When checking in POs Management, I still have the message : 'this reactor is not fully linked to other structures, it will not be active until all resources and reagents are connected'

Maybe I should stop using drugs before manufacturing them :p
Can't see any link button or whatever linkish linkage link. :s

Many thanks for your help
Bridgette d'Iberville
Better Killing Through Chemistry
#2 - 2014-06-06 19:12:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Bridgette d'Iberville
OK, so when you open the processes screen from the POS, you should see your silos and reactors. Make sure that each of the silos and reactors is setup for the correct input/output.

Once those are setup, you should see icons on the left and right hand side of each row representing the inputs/outputs. What you have to do is drag and drop the icons onto the opposite field of the structure that it is being linked.

For instance, let's say you're making Pure Synth Blue Pill. You should have a General Silo, a Biochemical Silo, a Medium Biochemical Reactor, and a Hazardous Chemical Silo. The General Silo should be setup for Garbage. The Biochemical Silo should be setup for Amber Mykoserocin. The Medium Biochemical Reactor should be setup to run a Pure Synth Blue Pill Reaction. The Hazardous Chemical Silo should be setup to store Pure Synth Blue Pill.

Once all the setups are completed, structures loaded with material, and onlined, you next have to link them all. From the processes screen, start with your General Silo. You should see an icon of garbage on the right hand side of the row. Click on it and drag it to the matching icon on the left side of the Medium Biochemical Reactor row. Next, do the same thing with the Amber Mykoserocin icon on the right hand side of the Biochemical Silo. Once those two are set, drag the Pure Synth Blue Pill icon on the right hand side of the Medium Biochemical Reactor to the same icon on the left hand side of the Hazardous Chemical Silo. If you do it right, it should say something (in seriously tiny font) on the Reactor row about Starting Up. Make sure to hit Apply when you're done before closing the screen.

It sounds a lot more complicated than it is. You're mainly just matching up icons. Hope that helps.

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Soldarius
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#3 - 2014-06-06 20:21:20 UTC
Anchor all your mods. Then configure your silos and reactors for the appropriate materials. Click apply.

Drag output icons from the right side of the interface to the matching input icon on the left side. Then click Apply.

Then click Reload.

Then click apply again.

Then click apply again just to be sure. Then close the interface, reopen it, and check to make sure everything is still ok. The POS interface will dump your links if you do not click apply at all the right times.

Please pay attention to the reaction outputs. They all have an additional output, whether it be garbage, water, oxygen, spirits, or hydrochloric acid. You will need at least 1 additional general storage silo at the end of your reaction chain for every different catalyst.

And don't online anything until everything else is set up. Don't risk losing a cycle of expensive inputs just because the POS timer happened to cycle while you were playing with the links. Onlining is the very last step.

You may notice a definitely large number of times to click apply. Do it again. I can't tell you how many times I had a god damn reaction POS dump everything or just not make needed changes because the interface is very ambiguous and doesn't tell you if things are right. Lost 2 weeks worth of Mercury once. Luckily for me it didn't eat the Neodymium, too.

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Cyber Baron
Penguins of Destiny
#4 - 2014-06-06 20:55:29 UTC
Many thanks to both of you for your help. I really appreciate.

I'm still stuck for now on this :

http://uprapide.com/image/784158-drugs-attempt-1

But hopefully I will sort it one day...
Bridgette d'Iberville
Better Killing Through Chemistry
#5 - 2014-06-06 21:04:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Bridgette d'Iberville
I think you need water rather than garbage for Standard booster production. Check your reaction!

ETA: I went ahead and checked. You need both of your General Silos setup for water. One should be feeding Water into the Reactor, the other should be receiving the water output.

"I considered a career in griefing, but then realized that I would never achieve the level of tear generation that CCP manages to do each and every expansion."
Cyber Baron
Penguins of Destiny
#6 - 2014-06-07 05:42:05 UTC
Thanks to both of you, I could have it eventually work.

Thank you very much !