[0.7.8] Pacemaker setting not remembered

[ZeroGravitas]

Pacemaker's pause/slow/turbo settings are not stored in snapshots, as Filter Conveyor's selections are. (Fabricator and Component Factories selected repeat build orders should be retained too, I think.)

A tech's Pacemaker setting is also reset when de-anchoring (a nuisance for mobile mini-crafters/hybrid techs).

#CoderTime, right?

 

[harpo99999]

I also find these issues irritating in a released to corporate block,(this sort of behaviour is tolerable(but not desirable) in an 'experimental' block, but not in a 'released from experimental' block)

 

[ZeroGravitas]

Possibly worst that Pacemakers at Turbo cause resources to fling off bases when coming out of refinery and scrappers [bug report]. Especially when going directly to silos.

But Pacemakers were badly needed for timely crafting, and the lack of coder time to finish them up had been dragging on for a long time, so, on balance, giving them to GSO was still the best decision. (If only multi-player wasn't wasting taking so much coding time...)

 

[Adriano]

Sadly, this is a tricky one to fix. Storing tech info in snapshots isn't as simple as it looks. Saving the state of a single block is possible (e.g. filter settings), but anything that affects a whole tech (e.g. battery levels, fuel etc) is a lot trickier. The pacemaker falls into the latter category I'm afraid. Not sure about the de-anchoring part though, will ask and find out.

 

[Adriano]

Just tested the de-anchoring @ZeroGravitas , and seems to work fine for me. Can you upload a snapshot of a tech that's doing this so we can see what's going on? Cheers

 

[ZeroGravitas]

Just tested the de-anchoring @ZeroGravitas , and seems to work fine for me.

Yeeeah. Sorry. It's quite possible I confused myself there; perhaps forgot I'd moved the pacemaker block. (The perils of not taking the time to make video demonstration proof.)

Undo of popping off the Sole Pacemaker (by removing the block it's attached to) definitely fails to restore the speed setting though.

Saving the state of a single block is possible

So just have all the attached Pacemaker blocks store the Tech's speed setting. (Or the primary Pacemaker - i.e. first attached.)