Shuttle Logistics

[RMDMe]

Looking for a little assistance please...

I have just built a remote mining dome (on same map) and reliant on RCs and Shuttles to keep it stocked while it's building up steam but I don't understand how the resources are moved from one location to another, specifically food.

I have an auto-storage for food at the main base with a stockpile of ~500 units (350 pop) and sent an RC Transport to drop 45 units at the new mining dome.

auto-storage at the main dome is directly fed from farms and has a "wanted" value of 4000
remote dome has a food depot wanting 180 food

once the remote food depot has some product the shuttles are picking it up and bringing it back to the auto-storage! I've blocked shuttles from the depot but I want them to keep it topped up (for now at least) so what defines the behaviour of transport logistics?

I want a central storage at the main base which is fed from the local farms and then food depots next to domes to be fed from this - as even my main base is a bit spread out and needs 2 drone hubs for full coverage.

cheers

 

[SoftwareSamurai]

Yeah, shuttle resource management logic seems a bit dodgy to me. I've seen drones move a resource from one depot to another, only to have a shuttle pick it up and move it back. Very frustrating!

 

[Darkfyre99]

I'm not 100% sure, but from what I've observed, depot priorities, both for shuttles and for drones, are based on percentage of the quantity requested, not any particular resource. It'll give a depot that is 30% of the requested quantity priority over one that is at 90% of the requested quantity, even if the 30% quantity is ten times the size of the 90% one. Once the requested resources are full, drones and shuttles will fill the nearest automated storage first, and then depot.

I generally keep requested quantities as low as possible, usually two resources for maintenance materials in a universal storage, and 20 for food, unless I'm planning on a lot of construction, which is when I'll construct temporary depots at the planned construction site. This seems to keep the resources flowing where I want need them to be, while avoiding too much unnecessary movement. I also wait on building automated storage unless I really need it, since transportation seems to want to fill those up first using any "excess" from depots and universal storage. IMO it's better to let a building sit idle due to its internal storage being full than maintain huge stockpiles of resources.

 

[Walt (oc.ca.us)]

I have an auto-storage for food at the main base with a stockpile of ~500 units (350 pop) and sent an RC Transport to drop 45 units at the new mining dome.

auto-storage at the main dome is directly fed from farms and has a "wanted" value of 4000
remote dome has a food depot wanting 180 food

once the remote food depot has some product the shuttles are picking it up and bringing it back to the auto-storage! ...

I'm not sure, but the shuttles could be moving food to the storage area with the biggest deficit, so ~3500 (4000 - ~500) is more than 180. I suggest dropping the minimum at your home base; it will collect all the excess food produced locally anyway.

You might also add some food production at your mining base. The whole centralized food production plan has a few problems: dust storms stop shuttles, the shuttles cost fuel (=water), and the shuttle hubs cost electronics maintenance (=rare metals) and power. You also lose the +10 morale for a farm in the dome if you have that tech.

Myself, I try to keep each dome self-sufficient in case of dust storms.