Groundwater pump stops producing water instead of producing at 40%

pump should produce at 40% according to difficulty settings, says so in the tooltip, however its not producing at all.

But it also reduces to 40% so it seems both difficulty settings are being applied..

Note that there is still a limited water replenishment even with this setting, only around 20 water per second is replenished in 15k reservoir. How many pumps are you having? Are they intermittently working?

Any number of pumps seems to stop working when the water runs out. I was doing a test to see what happened when water ran out and even with the pumps I was using to drain it paused it still wouldn’t work, even though the remaining pumps weren’t enough to deplete the water when it was just them. With the setting to “slows down” it shouldn’t stop completely

Can you provide save?

My laptop doesn't have wifi access at the moment so I am not able to. If you need a save from me I should be able to get you one in a few days, although maybe @furiouscombat13 [discord] has one

I don’t think it makes sense to have pumps just “slow down” when the water literally runs out. Imagine having 100 pumps running at 40% on a depleted reservoir

It’s a difficulty setting

I mean, what does it mean “running at 40% when resource is depleted”? Does it means no matter how many pumps u have, they will all run at 40%?

It seems like the actual intended behavior is that the whole reservoir provides 40% of a single pump’s throughput?

pepperbox4774 [discord] wrote:

I mean, what does it mean “running at 40% when resource is depleted”? Does it means no matter how many pumps u have, they will all run at 40%?

The pumps should work at 40%. The downside is that they still draw energy and maint. for 100%. so basically you are paying 250% running cost false pls look below at dev comment

so 250% running cost for unlimited water throughput?

if you have the setting active. yes false pls look below at dev comment

Water throughput is still limited even when this setting is on. We can discuss whether this limitation is too strict or not, but our intention with this setting was not to allow carpetting the entire watersource with slow pumps and get unlimitted water. Now, you will be getting extra 20-30 water per second during non-rainy days.

Huh then i misunderstood. Sorry for that.