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Moessus
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Blacklist not working for miners - Modded game.

Post by Moessus »

Hello,
I have the following game. I setup a base in Cardinals Redress and ran out of Methane. Pontifex Claim is showing 800K almost of Methane, but I cannot get my ships to mine there. When using blacklists and inverting to white list, they keep trying to mine in Cardinals Redress where there is virtually none. When removing all blacklist, they will head way out to Unholy Retribution where it is showing 34K. Holy Vision, Pontifex claim are owned by Xenon. Can you advise what the issue is, this seems like a bug...

I am using a modified game. Version 7.5, have all DLC.

https://1drv.ms/u/c/3aaae71d9c3e0387/EY ... w?e=fOdzRc

This should link to the save file.
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Re: Blacklist not working for miners.

Post by CBJ »

If your game is modified then there is not a lot we can do. Your mods may well be causing the behaviour you are seeing, and will likely prevent us loading the savegame in a meaningful state anyway.

If you can reproduce the problem in an unmodified game then we can investigate, otherwise we will have to assume it's the mods you're using and leave you to discuss the matter with the authors.
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Re: Blacklist not working for miners - Modded game.

Post by Raider480 »

Maybe I'll have better luck. I can make a separate post if that's better, but this seems close to my current problem.
I'm experiencing a similar kind of issue. It also seems like this might be exacerbated by trade orders drying up, although in my case more from low demand than low supply.

I have a series of factories in Ore Belt, with a sector activities blacklist set to only allow activities in Adventure's Promise. This was working alright at first, with miners heading that one sector over to mine, as expected.
Now the behavior has started to become unstable. Some miners just ignore the blacklist, queue and execute on an order to automine directly in Ore Belt. Manually deleting that order results in it coming back again to mine in the wrong system. The resources it wants are even still available in the whitelisted Adventure's Promise, so it should (?) have no reason I can see to insist on staying in Ore Belt. The station's manager has enough stars to go the next system over, and some of the miners are still doing that.

I have tried setting the blacklist behavior just on the individual miners, just on the station commander, and on both, with no success in any config (re)achieving the desired behavior consistently. I also tried adding a travel blacklist on top of the activities blacklist, which didn't help either. Neither did changing the activites whitelist to a blacklist for everywhere except Adventure's Promise.

My save is not modded, although I do have all of the DLC. This is on the stable 7.50 release, no beta.
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Re: Blacklist not working for miners - Modded game.

Post by Alan Phipps »

@ Raider480: Yes, a separate thread is better as no dev will (re)read a thread already titled as ignored for using a modded game. When you do repost in your new thread with an appropriate title, please include a public link to the vanilla save that shows the issue happening on loading it so that they can investigate and identify the issue.
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