[1.0] incomplete stockpile stacks causing colonists to get stuck in loop

Started by Tephrite, June 24, 2018, 09:05:54 AM

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Tephrite

In my stockpile with two incomplete stacks of steel of size 35 and 55, two of my colonists are trying to create a complete stack, but they seem to have prioritised different item stacks so they get stuck in a loop moving steel back and forth.
The video below shows what i'm talking about. I started recording about half a minute after I noticed it happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC8OxdwUO74

Grimelord82

It's my opinion that we need a bit more hysteresis/stickiness on stockpile stacks, which might also help with this issue.
Ex.
Stack 1 is set to Preferred - Corn.
Stack 2 is set to Normal - Corn.

Every time 5 corn is taken from Stack 1, a haul job gets created to move corn from 2 to 1. Let it rest until there's only 50 corn, or set Haul jobs to a lower tick rate, etc.

Canute

Yep missing hysteresis allways was a problem.
Lucky there allways was a few mod's that add these to the gameplay.