Chem station and gun powder crafting times

[DEATH MECHANIC]

so i just unlocked bulk crafting at the chem station and it takes 22 min to bulk craft 1000 gun powder but if you just craft 1000 gun powder it takes 11 min. seems like this might be backwards or else my perk reward is to have to wait longer to craft gun powder. hopefully this can get looked at for the next patch.

 

[unholyjoe]

confusing to a point yes... i had to look at it a few times to see whats different.

unbuffed just looking at chem times:

make 1000 gunpowder setting the amount to 1000 will take 16:40 and consumes 1000 nitrate and 1000 coal.

make a 1k stack of gunpowder setting to 1 will take 30:00 and consume 800 nitrate and 800 coal.

so making the stack will take longer because the chem station has to stretch 800 each to make that stack that will give you 1k.

the only benefit is that it cuts down on resource amount needed and if you perk up and or buff with mods the time and amount consumed may change.

 

[DEATH MECHANIC]

confusing to a point yes... i had to look at it a few times to see whats different.

unbuffed just looking at chem times:

make 1000 gunpowder setting the amount to 1000 will take 16:40 and consumes 1000 nitrate and 1000 coal.

make a 1k stack of gunpowder setting to 1 will take 30:00 and consume 800 nitrate and 800 coal.

so making the stack will take longer because the chem station has to stretch 800 each to make that stack that will give you 1k.

the only benefit is that it cuts down on resource amount needed and if you perk up and or buff with mods the time and amount consumed may change.

this is not a bug... just have to weigh the factors. but there is a benefit to making it in 1k stacks.

ok, i am not try to start an argument but i have to disagree with your logic here. the times and required materials you listed are correct, but in the grand scheme of things you dont buy or upgrade equipment to get a slower result. yes it uses less materials but it should also be quicker crafting time. i also would not call having it in stacks is a benefit cause I could just throw down another box to store it in, and only using 200 less materials isn't that much of a benefit either. i would rather use that 200 materials to get it quicker and with a tier 6 pick axe and no perks in miner 69, 200 materials is 4 blocks of ore and is 7 swings of a pick axe so less that 10 seconds of time to mine one ore block. I would rather mine for an extra 10-20 seconds if it's going to save me 10 minutes later on.

Also with your logic on this matter how can you explain the gas can crafting? Again with no perks to craft 10000 gas takes 16:40 minutes but to craft bulk gas can (also 10000 gas) it takes 10:00 minutes, uses less shale and is a quicker craft time.

i really think that this is not balance correctly and im sorry for posting this in the bug section, im new here and if this was the wrong section to post in, im sorry.

 

[unholyjoe]

the best thing to do is to make a real report as per the blue banner above will guide you and put the report in the bug pool so it can be investigated. it very well could be an issue or it may not. this way it can be checked, but this area is for support questions more or less and the bug report thread is where we can document issues correctly.

i can retract the statement of not a bug until it is answered officially by the dev when its reported.

thanks you for your concern on this.

 

[DEATH MECHANIC]

the best thing to do is to make a real report as per the blue banner above will guide you and put the report in the bug pool so it can be investigated. it very well could be an issue or it may not. this way it can be checked, but this area is for support questions more or less and the bug report thread is where we can document issues correctly.

i can retract the statement of not a bug until it is answered officially by the dev when its reported.

thanks you for your concern on this.

ok, and thank you for your response. i will look into reporting it to the "bug pool", i thought i was doing that here. sorry