Net cost of making sheets in autolathe should be zero

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Net cost of making sheets in autolathe should be zero

Post by TeDGamer » 17 Jun 2016, 11:45

I'm not sure if this is a feature or not, so instead of putting this in the bugs section (since it works) and placed it in the suggestion.

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
Making metal and glass sheets should not result in loss when making them in the autolathe.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
No loss of materials for no reason for the marines.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
As of now, when one sheet of either metal or glass is put into an autolathe it gives about 3700 -3800 materials to be used. (don't rememeber the exact number)

However, the cost to get back that sheet of metal or glass is around 4687 if IIRC. There's a net loss of about 1000 materials just to get your sheet back.

I feel like they should be exactly the same, considering you can't deconstruct an autolathe to get things back.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):

This should be a simple fix: Either increase the material a sheet gives to the cost or reduce the cost to what the sheet gives.

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Re: Net cost of making sheets in autolathe should be zero

Post by MauroVega » 17 Jun 2016, 11:54

You are taking out what you put inside,if you put in 5 sheets you can take out 5 sheets,its not a bug
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Re: Net cost of making sheets in autolathe should be zero

Post by TeDGamer » 17 Jun 2016, 12:00

MauroVega wrote:You are taking out what you put inside,if you put in 5 sheets you can take out 5 sheets,its not a bug
Thing is you can't take out 5 sheets because there's not enough materials to produce 5 sheets when you insert 5 sheets.

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Re: Net cost of making sheets in autolathe should be zero

Post by MauroVega » 17 Jun 2016, 12:09

you sure someone else did not print something?
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Re: Net cost of making sheets in autolathe should be zero

Post by TeDGamer » 17 Jun 2016, 12:15

MauroVega wrote:you sure someone else did not print something?
You try putting 5 sheets in and getting 5 sheets out, like I noted there's a difference in material units

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Re: Net cost of making sheets in autolathe should be zero

Post by Iatots » 17 Jun 2016, 15:08

This is, or is similar to, a very old problem with the first sheet in a stack not counting when inserting said stack into the autolathe.
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Re: Net cost of making sheets in autolathe should be zero

Post by forwardslashN » 17 Jun 2016, 19:10

Done.
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