This is about as illogical as it gets. The tower is set up with a stone and earth dumping area and a leveling zone. It runs perfectly for 2-3 hours, but then the game suddenly decides, "Well, why not deliver according to image two, it's much closer." It should be the case again that tower settings ALWAYS take precedence and not that the game itself decides. in my opinion make for every new player more sense.
Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Where should it dump in the 2nd pic?
Oh, bottom right?
Is the rock mined and dumped directly or does it go into storages first (from an ore sorter, for example)
The first photo shows a leveling area for dirt and stones. Mine and dump it in the assigned sector. This worked well for two hours, and then the game simply decided, as shown in the second photo, to deliver there even though this storage was designated for sand mining. This wasn't always the case in the game, and I wish it would work that way again. Previously, if a mining tower had no delivery options, it was reported, and action had to be taken.
I'm not sure how you set things up, as I've never had issues with my dumping zones. I'll ask some targeted questions to understand your setup tomorrow. Bed awaits!
I've been playing the game for several years and exactly 6.8k hours, and I simply see that pathfinding hasn't improved, but rather become more complicated. Perhaps a dev will read this. I didn't intend to start a discussion with this, and I don't want to create 100 zones on the map because it wasn't necessary before, and it worked better. ^^