Surviving Mars

Surviving Mars

Large Drone Station
35 Comments
Daytona Coles 16 Apr, 2023 @ 12:58pm 
welp this was good whilst it was up to date not it doesnt work
Mumsiedo 12 Sep, 2021 @ 6:18am 
Thank you greatly for the update :-)
Lesandrina 25 Jul, 2020 @ 2:13pm 
the mod is really great and works basically really well!

i just confirmed the issue with drones not working after dust storm is over. power off/on solves the issue. the drones are still linked just idling around.

regarding the repair issue: repair in any thinkable way was not possible. destroying and building a new one worked nicely. i did not check if "rebuild" works.
RustyDios  [author] 25 Jul, 2020 @ 1:11pm 
I should really update these descriptions to reflect that I have moved away from modding SM... BUT I'd miss out on crucial bug-reports like yours for when/if I can return to the scene :)

Hope your having fun still ... and stay safe :)
RustyDios  [author] 25 Jul, 2020 @ 1:07pm 
As per the comments before yours;
I'll admit it's been almost a year since I last worked on any Surviving Mars Project.

I'm really sorry I don't have the time to investigate your issues. :( Other projects have pulled me away from modding for SM.
I have no idea what would be causing the un-linking of drones to the controller, nor do I have the first idea on how to make it compatible with the newer features of Choggi's mods (like repair and request). I am deeply sorry for this and hope it doesn't truly sour your experience of the game or mods.

Do the drones 'eventually' repair it on their own ? Can it be destroyed an rebuilt from that state ?
Lesandrina 25 Jul, 2020 @ 11:58am 
see screenshot: https://ibb.co/4Y85Fhm
Lesandrina 25 Jul, 2020 @ 11:57am 
another problem: after the station got disabled needing repairs e.g. after a nearby meteor hit, surrounding drones dont start the repair. even manually, when you load electronics on a drone, you cannot give the command "deliver / repair" on the bulding. the cursor does not change like with other buildings needing repair / ressources to build. also: choggi enhanced his mod so that the extra "maintenance request" appears also for this station, but clicking it here has no effect - in contrast to other buildings.
Lesandrina 23 Jul, 2020 @ 5:49pm 
great mod. i noticed a little bug: after a dust storm the controlled dont automatically get back to work. i needed to power off and power on the station, that made the drone control work again.
RustyDios  [author] 21 Jun, 2020 @ 1:45am 
I'll admit it's been almost a year since I last worked on any Surviving Mars Project... but if ChoGGi's Mod's still exist they were the number one route into getting a whole host of debug options as well as gamefixes.

Even if you could provide a savefile for me to test this issue myself would be helpful, as I can't reproduce it, at all. Obviously if I can't reproduce the bug, I can't even attempt to figure out what is going wrong or work out a fix. :)
Portmanteau 21 Jun, 2020 @ 1:38am 
I see. Well, since the game isn't crashing it doesn't put anything on the logfile (in "%APPDATA%/Surviving Mars"), or anywhere I can take a look at. Do you know a way to put the game into debug mode or force it to print verbose output? I tried to run the game from a terminal and it doesn't even print anything related to this
RustyDios  [author] 21 Jun, 2020 @ 1:34am 
Unfortunately @ANACHRONiSM never got me a copy of his log file, and being unable to reproduce the bug on my end in hours upon hours of gameplay and since there has been no further issues, I had to assume the bug was fictionally tied to this mod as a cause.

However, if you have fresh logfiles, or even a savestate that reliably reproduces this bug... please send them to me on the discord and I will endeavour to solve the issue.
Portmanteau 21 Jun, 2020 @ 1:20am 
I have same error as you @ANACHRONiSM . Did you manage to solve this?
叫你妈叫叫叫煞笔 30 Aug, 2019 @ 11:26pm 
We're all friends. I'm from China.
叫你妈叫叫叫煞笔 30 Aug, 2019 @ 11:24pm 
不用谢,我只是做了我该做的.You're welcome. I just did what I had to do.
Cave Yeti Supreme 12 Jul, 2019 @ 4:08pm 
I'll get on Discord like you said and hopefully it'll be easy to work it out there.

Also don't worry about it, it's a free mod, if I can help get the issue resolved (if it's not on my end lol) then that's all I care about
RustyDios  [author] 12 Jul, 2019 @ 2:20am 
Hmm odd.. but yeah please pass on the error...if it's something I can fix I will.. I feel gutted this has happened for you and would obviously like it to not happen ... have you tried to build one recently? like save your game first and try and build one? .... what techs have you got researched? drone swarms? autonomous hubs? sponsor? ... I'd like to get to the root of the issue.

I played and bug tested as much as I could, and use these myself on a save at well over 300sols and just finally got a 1000+ colony ... so I'm interested to see what the issue might be... I'm guessing a mod-conflict though
Cave Yeti Supreme 11 Jul, 2019 @ 11:34pm 
I can continue on in the exact same save without disabling any mods, including this one, as long as I don't build one of the large drone stations. But if I plop one down and let it build, right before construction finishes, it completely freezes the game. To give you an idea, I think I was on Sol 70 when the crash happened the first time, and once I stopped trying to build the large drone station, I could continue on, and now I'm almost at Sol 200.

I do have a log with what looks to my uneducated eye to be an error (it just isn't from the crash log folder, that one's empty, *shrug*). I do use a ton of mods, but just refraining from placing the large drone station has eliminated the crashing.
RustyDios  [author] 11 Jul, 2019 @ 10:04pm 
First off, disable the mod in Paradox manager... start a new game, if your game doesn't crash, likely this mod... if it does, then it's something else

Secondly (for a conflict issue) disable ALL your mods... enable this one... then one by one enable each mod

Alternatively join the Surviving Mars Modders Discord and send me a copy of your crash log in my channel, I might be able to find the problem that way :)
Cave Yeti Supreme 11 Jul, 2019 @ 4:41pm 
Hi Rusty, I believe this mod is causing my game to crash. How can I go about troubleshooting the problem? I'd like to be able to use it
RustyDios  [author] 10 Jul, 2019 @ 4:30pm 
谢谢你翻译的描述 - 使用谷歌翻译翻译
叫你妈叫叫叫煞笔 10 Jul, 2019 @ 4:17pm 
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RustyDios  [author] 22 Jun, 2019 @ 4:39pm 
@CopperCore I'm very sorry, but I'm unable to reproduce the bug of providing power during any of the different types of dust storm. I'll admit I invoke dust storms for testing purposes through the use of ECM's Disaster menu but as far as I know this is no different to a natural game invoked storm. All Large Drone Stations shut down during dust storms and provide no power output or drone command.

On a different note I can confirm that whilst not by intentional design the technology breakthrough of 'Autonomous Hubs' does indeed affect these stations too, which I think is a perfectly fine outcome of having the breakthrough. Whilst you have this breakthrough you will not see the maintenance bar for these (or standard Drone Hubs) as they no longer require maintenance. Could you please confirm this was the case in your game?
RustyDios  [author] 22 Jun, 2019 @ 9:48am 
info panel won't have the cheats section unless you have ECM installed or the attention warning if you have drones assigned, but otherwise should look like the 4th screenshot
RustyDios  [author] 22 Jun, 2019 @ 9:46am 
thanks, I'll look into those bugs.. the infopanel maintenance bar should be there.. I might have to check on if "Autonomous Hubs" actually effects these, it shouldn't but it's all I can think of that might remove the bar..... ... as for the dust storm issue, I'll check on it actually giving power during storms or not, might have to change a line or two of the code...

The info panel should look as it does in the 4th screenshot
Copper 22 Jun, 2019 @ 7:15am 
I also noticed that the building seemed to still be producing power during a dust storm. It's as if half the building's functionality was still working even turning the storm?
Copper 22 Jun, 2019 @ 6:12am 
Hey, small issue. Just noticed there's no maintenance bar at all on this building? Is this a visual bug, or is this actually missing?
RustyDios  [author] 22 Jun, 2019 @ 3:59am 
Good tip, incorporated :)
Cave Yeti Supreme 22 Jun, 2019 @ 12:05am 
Rusty, I haven't used this mod, but the explanation you provided in your comment should IMO be adapted and included in the description above. I wasn't immediately aware of why I would bother using it, but your explanation won me over and I'm clicking that green button.
AturUwU 21 Jun, 2019 @ 7:45am 
ok that make more sense
RustyDios  [author] 21 Jun, 2019 @ 6:55am 
True, but three charging stations on their own also wont give out 10 units of power or control drones like a drone hub within a 12 hex radius.

It was designed to be used for small remote outposts/situations (like the countless amount of Seed Spreaders you might want) or for smaller controlled drone work like shuffling waste rock around, or as an extra task manager in a smaller radius you can use it to satisfy local demands with the drones whilst your major hubs organise shuffling resources across your Universal Depots..or to bridge that small gap/oversight in your drone network, instead of building another power guzzling, electric material munching drone hub...

But each to their own, if you can't find a use for it, maybe not the mod you need/want. Thankyou however for your feedback and comment and for trying the mod out. Much appreciated.
AturUwU 21 Jun, 2019 @ 6:38am 
I just dont see the reason why you created this. Its cheaper to just build 3 charging stations wich are mostly useless anyway, it really doesnt look special or unique in anyway but I hope this was fun for you to build because thats all what really matters
RustyDios  [author] 16 Jun, 2019 @ 5:34am 
Description updated, hopefully its clearer and avoids confusion :)
Tseudonym 16 Jun, 2019 @ 5:30am 
[quote=RustyDios]Large Drone Station (a smaller remote usage Drone Hub)[/quote]
This is an oxymoron. You might want to change the name to avoid confusion.
RustyDios  [author] 16 Jun, 2019 @ 4:31am 
roguetov 16 Jun, 2019 @ 1:57am 
Good afternoon, could you tell me which mod for new types of resources in 4 screenshot?