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Bot stacking issue with harvesting/mining bots
Due to the current mechanics of bot stacking, stacking bots/rovers/probes which harvest resources will actually reduce the harvesting yield.
Based on my observation, a group of harvesting bots will fill up its resource capacity one-by-one and offload its payload in the resource dropoff one-by-one, instead of simultaneously. For clarity, I use the Draco ether bots as example, but this affects all harvesting type bots/rovers/probes :
a. A single Ether Bot will spend ~1 second to mine and fill its capacity, then another ~1 second to unload its payload onto a Silo. 100 of the Ether Bots working separately will have a total yield of say, 100k ether per minute.
B. When these 100 Ether Bots are merged into 1 group, this 1 group will spend ~100 seconds to fill the capacity of the group, and then spend another ~100 seconds to unload the Ether into a Silo, before starting another harvest cycle. This drops the resource total yield proportionally to almost 1/100 of case (a).
In conclusion, harvesting time and unloading time is extended proportional to the amount of bots present in the group.
I tested and the same thing happened with UE Crystalbots, as well as Draco Enslaved Extremeobugs, so I reckon this happens with all harvesting bots. The drop is less proportional where travel time is involved as there is no travel time difference between separate bots and one grouped bots.
As such, I advise players not to group their harvesting bots if they want to maintain their harvesting yield (although grouping them will reduce lag).
DO group your construction bots and drones though, as grouped construction bots work as intended with the awesome grouping feature.
Based on my observation, a group of harvesting bots will fill up its resource capacity one-by-one and offload its payload in the resource dropoff one-by-one, instead of simultaneously. For clarity, I use the Draco ether bots as example, but this affects all harvesting type bots/rovers/probes :
a. A single Ether Bot will spend ~1 second to mine and fill its capacity, then another ~1 second to unload its payload onto a Silo. 100 of the Ether Bots working separately will have a total yield of say, 100k ether per minute.
B. When these 100 Ether Bots are merged into 1 group, this 1 group will spend ~100 seconds to fill the capacity of the group, and then spend another ~100 seconds to unload the Ether into a Silo, before starting another harvest cycle. This drops the resource total yield proportionally to almost 1/100 of case (a).
In conclusion, harvesting time and unloading time is extended proportional to the amount of bots present in the group.
I tested and the same thing happened with UE Crystalbots, as well as Draco Enslaved Extremeobugs, so I reckon this happens with all harvesting bots. The drop is less proportional where travel time is involved as there is no travel time difference between separate bots and one grouped bots.
As such, I advise players not to group their harvesting bots if they want to maintain their harvesting yield (although grouping them will reduce lag).
DO group your construction bots and drones though, as grouped construction bots work as intended with the awesome grouping feature.
I can confirm this. I tested with ether bots as well and had the same results as Mizar. Let me know if you need more info.
So basically, instead of a 10x stack harvesting at 10x speed, it just takes 10x the time to fill up and unload (although still with 10x cap)
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Yes Bast, that is correct. A group of 10 bots will have 10x the cap as it should be, but will take 10x longer both to fill its cap and to unload its resources. The multiplier will be increased in proportion to the amount of bots present in the group.
