Bug: (Purple) Cores vanish in Core Composer

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I was in a purple Core deficit (-1468) after removing my purple core tower
I chose a new place for the core composer and routed a container to it using 3 fast inserters (as stack inserters keep quantities below 6 in their hands)
- - - note: I observed the core counter in the tech tree while the composer was placing them and observed that occasionally there's a skip in the countdown ( slowed down capture: https://i.imgur.com/pbWGbfF.gif )
The counter stopped at -1
I dismantled the tower once more and indeed the qty. of cores I recovered was 1467
I fed the composer another time with the remaining 1467 cores
In: 1467, counter: -5, collected:1463
Third round
In: 1463, counter: -8, collected: 1460

Read by dev Bug Suggested by: stefanda (07 Nov) • Upvoted: 14 Nov • Comments: 7

Comments: 7

07 Nov
Joey Admin
Not sure what's going on with this one. I'm passing it along to our QA folks who might reply here with more questions.

What platform are you on?
07 Nov
stefanda
Continued:
In; 1460, counter: -10, collected: 1458
In: 1458, counter: -14, collected: 1454
In: 1454, counter: -28(!), collected: 1440
In: 1440, counter: -51(!), collected: 1417
to be continued.
07 Nov
stefanda
My Platform is Steam PC, Windows 10.
07 Nov
stefanda
I just realized that I was also fiddling around with some tech turned off/on to investigate some issues with core boost values, and I probably changed the count of unassigned purple cores that way, though not in each case.

The next batch of numbers will definitely be without that.
07 Nov
stefanda
uhm, actually ... no. The number of cores I was able to collect from the composer /did/ decrease and matched the deficit.
That means I didn't mess up anything by disabling tech.
10 Nov
stefanda
New session:
Initial core tower was 61 cores high (61x25=1525) and 9 cores on top (1534).
Collected cores after deconstruction matches as does core count in Tech Tree (-1534)

Batch 1: In (cores into composer): 0, count (core count in Tech Tree): -1534, out (collected): 1534, (core loss for this batch)
Batch 2: In: 1534, count: -13 , out : 1521, -13
Batch 3: In: 1521, count: -19, out : 1515, -6
Batch 4: In 1515: , count: -24, out : 1510, -5
Batch 5: In: 1510 , count: -26 , out : 1508, -2
-= Game saved and loaded back in =-
Batch 6: In: 1508, count: -26, out : 1508, 0
Batch 7: In: 1508, count: -37, out : 1497, -11
-= Game saved and loaded back in =-
Batch 8: In: 1497, count: -54, out : 1480, -17
-= Game saved and loaded back in, relocated composer and changed required number of cores to 2074 =-
Batch 9: In: 2074, count: -14, out : 2060, -14
Batch 10: In: 2060, count: -21, out : 2053, -7
-= Game saved and loaded back in =-
...
10 Nov
stefanda
... continued
Batch 11: In: 2053, count: -31, out : 2043, -10
Batch 12: In: 2043, count: -37, out : 2037, -6
Batch 13: In: 2037, count: -59, out : 2015, -22
Batch 14: In: 2015, count: -66, out : 2008, -7
Batch 15: In: 2008, count: -97, out : 1977, -31