IN SHORT : cargo drones between stations > how to make it work?
DETAILED :
To avoid very long building times, I'm slowly trying to setup a cluster of stations, built simultaneously, each of them producing 1 basic ware and supplying the main high tech factory.
At the moment I have : 1 e-cells station, 1 water station, 1 meat station, the 3 of them built around a food/meds factory. All station plots are almost touching one another. Stations are rather small : just basic 3M/6S dock/storage/factories/hab
- Only the food/meds factory has traders assigned.
- All stations have cargo drones and money
- all basic/intermediate wares are restricted from NPC, with sell price minimum and buy price maximum
The idea was that being very close to one another, the cargo drones would supply the station between themselves, avoiding the need to provide traders for ALL stations, as shown in some other posts.
What I noticed :
- mass traffic appears between stations
- no cargo drone movement at all...
- the food/meds factory is doing fine because it has traders which supply from my surrounding stations
- the other stations are slowly running out of energy
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Then I added one L dock to the energy station.
- i then saw ONE cargo drone sending e-cells to the main factory, not to the other stations
- then... no cargo drone movement whatsoever... ever
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So at the end I have to assign again traders to all of the stations to supply all wares from/to everywhere.
... could someone explain to me how to make these cargo drones lines working between stations?
