Same issue here just searched this topic thought i was the only one..., future wharf complex is gathering Ore, Silicon, Hydrogen just fine...but all 13xM and 2xL miners (gas/solid mix) are ignoring Methane(2nd on list of mineable items for station miners).Archaeosis wrote: ↑Tue, 6. Apr 21, 11:27Mining AI as clearly and succinctly explained above was broken in 4.0 - managers now ignore one or more resources because of crummy mistakes in the AI scripts.
Unfortunately a number of vocal people including several moderators in the community are pretending it's not broken, writing essay-length posts about how all the issues are because of laughable user error by ignorant players neglecting to do this or that, not placing enough mining probes which are broken and frankly unpleasant additions to gameplay even if they worked as intended, etc. This is a frustrating distraction and wastes everyone's time.
I worry that Egosoft actually believe their new mining gameplay update is excellent and are ignoring these reports, while people like FenrisWolf are having to do their jobs and go in and fix the silly but really rather simple AI script errors that Egosoft should have fixed halfway through the beta. It doesn't even look particularly difficult so I can only think Egosoft don't bother because they believe it's not broken.
New start 2d 22hrs(im sure 60% of this time is Alt+Tabbed trying to websearch why something isnt working on my new start). Since ive been gone for about 2 years with only 4.0 as im holding out on Split and CoH DLC until core game bugs/ QoL issues are sorted, at this rate i suppose im just waiting for Star Citizen 3.13 to drop and ill go back there...i can't deal with the tedium and web searches to get info coz in game sources are non-existent to play a game. Ive tried...if there was some kind of a warning or tip pop up to tell me in game why AI is not working for mining would be great...we can only dream.
Modded save:
1) Removed manager - Re-hired
2) i have slapped on 3xPAR L Container Storage, 2xArgon L Solid Storage, 4xArgon M Solid Storage, 3xTEL M Liquid Storage, 3xArgon L Liquid Storage, 2xArgon L Container storage (to see if its a faction storage issue?!)
3) all product lines are close to 2hr or 5hrs of resources left of production and improving
4) Modules present: 4xSmart chip, 2xMedical Supplies, 2xAntimatter cells, 2xFood production, 2xGraphene, 2xRefined Metals, 3xEnergy Cells
5) 3xArgon L Habitat, 3xEDock capital dock and 12xM ship docks, my ships and capitals dock easy with no apparent access issues
6) Station requires 10mil credits i have given it 15mil credits to cover "costs"
7) 24 sectors explored so far with 120+ resource probes, probably the same if not more satelites in majority of sectors
8 ) trade rule limiting any purchasing of raw material just my own ship deliveries are allowed, and auto amount purchases/ pricing or cheap doesnt matter. ( i am a bit confused on how this works though, ill just go web/ Forum search some moar yay)
Still no Methane mining happening just Hydrogen...so Graphene production is dead...ill try building modules for graphene demand (budget is tight), but then there is no antimatter cells demand so why is it getting hydrogen...
Edit 1: I have added more Argon L Solid/ Container/ Liquid storage 2 modules each, i have added demand for graphene(methane) with hull parts...still no methane mining...i have tried to manually increase storage allocation, and i have also added a new Gas Helium (3rd on the list of mineables for my station ships to mine) this is for superfluid coolant, and helium mining is working fine...they still ignore Methane in my case. Weird they skip Methane to rather mine a newly added gas to the production line-up.
I have also added about 10 more resources probes in adjacent sectors, they refuse to mine whats number 2 on the mineable orders list.
Edit 2: Instead of trying a miner mod, i have resorted to buying 4 new gas miners that use repeat orders to mine "ignored raw material" in my case methane, at this point repeat orders is working, however i will monitor as i have sent them to a 6.5 KM3 zone in The Void, so unless the averages start impacting them and they start mining depleted zones, it seems to be a work around for the bug.
Edit 3: They are now ignoring the newly added helium gas too, and solely focused on mining hydrogen only, so both helium and Methane being ignored. I suppose ill create repeat orders for some of the miners to get helium only now.