[X3:TC] Recycling question (@PHQ)

[zapza]

I've got a couple of capped ships to run through recycling at my PHQ.

At the moment I'm producing Xenon Qs, each one takes about 20 hours.

Right now my PHQ is almost filled to capacity with trade goods - mostly to produce the Qs. The current Q is about five hours from completion.

A Zeus takes about 2.5 hours to recycle.


My question then is this,


If my PHQ is at capacity when I have ships in the recycled queue, will the constituent parts of those ships actually find their way into the PHQ stocks and be used, or will anything over the max 500000 units be discarded. or "lost" ?

Put another way, should I not recycle ships when my PHQ is nearly full?


Hope that makes sense - any advice appreciated.

[brucewarren]

I suspect it's lost. I wouldn't risk it myself.

What you could do I suppose , if a Q is halfway through construction (it should already have grabbed it's raw materials from the pile) is offload some stuff to a few TLs and then get a Zeus recycle under way.