Lategame station inflation - Improvements in a future build.

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Lategame station inflation - Improvements in a future build.

Post by Hasenpfote » Tue, 13. Apr 21, 18:55

There are several sectors with around 200 stations, built by NPC. It looks like there is something broken with the AI behavior in choosing, how many station are needed for certain stuff.

EDIT: Savegame: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
Video: https://youtu.be/VK4N28YP2KY
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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by CBJ » Tue, 13. Apr 21, 19:08

Sorry, but since you've not provided any of the information requested at the top of the forum, there is little or nothing we can do with your statement. The bare minimum we would need would be to know whether or not your game is modified, and without an unmodified savegame the chances of us being able to work out why it's happened in your game are close to zero.

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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by Black Falcon » Wed, 14. Apr 21, 20:22

It's not 200 Stations but the Paranid build a pretty huge amount of very low module count stations in the upper north west region. They clump in about three large station clusters in Wretched Skies X.
Maybe it's a sample of similar situation.

Savegame:
https://www.magentacloud.de/lnk/AggAgBJl

From my oberservations AI builds new stations if some resources are missing. Maybe it's just a symtom of trade getting stuck, resulting in high trade offers and AI tries to compensate by building more factories.
Maybe it's related to this topic?
viewtopic.php?f=183&t=436443
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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by Raevyan » Wed, 14. Apr 21, 23:54

CBJ wrote:
Tue, 13. Apr 21, 19:08
Sorry, but since you've not provided any of the information requested at the top of the forum, there is little or nothing we can do with your statement. The bare minimum we would need would be to know whether or not your game is modified, and without an unmodified savegame the chances of us being able to work out why it's happened in your game are close to zero.
Here is a save were it's most apparent for SCA in Silent Witness sectors. about 100 station, 18 Nostrop and 25 Medical Supplies. You can look at the rest of the map too, think there might be some other places were one would consider it "spam".

Link to save:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aafaNS ... sp=sharing

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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by Hasenpfote » Thu, 15. Apr 21, 17:15

Have edited the first posting with Video and Savegame

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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by Xenon_Slayer » Wed, 5. May 21, 14:55

Thanks for the reports and saves. We've made some improvements to stop this happening and will sort our your saves.
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Re: Lategame station inflation - Improvements in a future build.

Post by Stingads_Gsöchts » Wed, 5. May 21, 17:48

Just in case you need another save: viewtopic.php?f=183&t=438084.

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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by strask412 » Mon, 10. May 21, 00:55

Xenon_Slayer wrote:
Wed, 5. May 21, 14:55
Thanks for the reports and saves. We've made some improvements to stop this happening and will sort our your saves.
Bold added by me. Thanks again, Egosoft, for the excellent customer service you provide by retroactively fixing our saves when possible!
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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by nOy » Tue, 1. Jun 21, 18:49

strask412 wrote:
Mon, 10. May 21, 00:55
Xenon_Slayer wrote:
Wed, 5. May 21, 14:55
Thanks for the reports and saves. We've made some improvements to stop this happening and will sort our your saves.
Bold added by me. Thanks again, Egosoft, for the excellent customer service you provide by retroactively fixing our saves when possible!
Got confused. Does Egosoft fix existing save files if one sends it or it will be fixed later (or already fixed) with a patch?
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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by strask412 » Tue, 1. Jun 21, 20:54

nOy wrote:
Tue, 1. Jun 21, 18:49
strask412 wrote:
Mon, 10. May 21, 00:55
Xenon_Slayer wrote:
Wed, 5. May 21, 14:55
Thanks for the reports and saves. We've made some improvements to stop this happening and will sort our your saves.
Bold added by me. Thanks again, Egosoft, for the excellent customer service you provide by retroactively fixing our saves when possible!
Got confused. Does Egosoft fix existing save files if one sends it or it will be fixed later (or already fixed) with a patch?
The patch will delete the extra stations, when the patch arrives. Presumably. They've done similar retroactive fixes in patches in the past when, for example, thousands of extra ships got spawned in one release. :)
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Re: Lategame station inflation

Post by jlehtone » Tue, 1. Jun 21, 21:54

strask412 wrote:
Tue, 1. Jun 21, 20:54
The patch will delete the extra stations, when the patch arrives. Presumably.
Two logical options:
  • Game will discard some stations when it loads a save
  • Game will more aggressively schedule "surplus stations" for dismantling
Discarding a station during load is tricky, if player has docked ships to every station. Delete with station or drop to space? Furthermore, there could be many ships heading to station.

The dismantling is a normal game function; occasionally NPC stations just close business and slowly vanish. Presumably it kicks of "customers" in orderly fashion.
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Re: Lategame station inflation - Improvements in a future build.

Post by strask412 » Wed, 2. Jun 21, 18:12

Agreed yes, the details of implementing such a fix are intricate. :) That's why I'm always impressed when egosoft does it anyway. :)
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