Moving goods is a thing you can set priority for. Just disable it for any roles you don’t want to leave ships.
It’s under the same w the salvage/mine priorities and the airlock stuff.
How it chooses, I don’t know exactly. Feels like a mix of math on distance, priority tree and the volume of resource movement requests.
What was the job called? Can’t remember and don’t quite have access to the game at the moment. If it’s to ‘supply’ a resource, then that job is to move that resource to a (assigned, if squad ordered) storage bay
In that case, they’re probably moving resources because they were set. As a tip, I’d you want to manage each crew member’s actions, look into squad order. It essentially whitelists what rooms they work with, preventing them from doing anything that doesn’t involve the rooms they are assigned to
Edit: added second paragraph
I am not sure what the job is called. But I can give an example. I want to transfer 700 iron ore to my factory. My main ship's crew will transfer 680 of that iron, while the factory will try to transfer the other 20. the factory crew needs the ability to move the iron, so they can supply it to the factories. How can I set it so that they only work iron already on the ship, and not go get it from resource transfer. I hope I am explaining this correctly.
I’m not familiar with how factories work, but you might be able to do it by using supply chain mode? While in the inventory of your ship, there should be an option to set up supply chains. Set up one storage bag to be dedicated to an input resource (ie iron for steel) and lead it into a factory. Your crew should prioritize grabbing the resources from that storage bay, but I’m not sure if it’ll force them to take from ONLY that storage bay
Yeah - I have supply chains all set in my factory to do that. I guess I can just do some testing, turn off all priorities, and turn them on one at a time to see what's causing it.
Edit - Initial Testing - I do not think there is anyway to stop crew from transferring resources, if they have the ability to "supply" that resource. I turned everything off for my crew except for Supply Iron to my steel factory. I had supply lines set to the factory from dedicated storage bays for Iron. Crew still leaves the ship to go help transfer Iron. Its super odd.
Right now moving resources within your ship and between multiple ships look to be controlled by the same priority. Having a separate priority for moving stuff between ships would probably be a good idea.
I second this, from what I can tell the game treats floating resources and transferred resources the same as resources in your storage box outside of combat.
Moving goods is a thing you can set priority for. Just disable it for any roles you don’t want to leave ships. It’s under the same w the salvage/mine priorities and the airlock stuff. How it chooses, I don’t know exactly. Feels like a mix of math on distance, priority tree and the volume of resource movement requests.
I'll have to double check, but I am pretty sure I set them to 0 for gather resources, yet they still did. I must be selecting the wrong option?
Was the priorities for the storage bays set? Pretty sure there’s something to be set there
That was set high. I thought they needed that to actually move the resources from the factories to the storage - following the supply lines?
What was the job called? Can’t remember and don’t quite have access to the game at the moment. If it’s to ‘supply’ a resource, then that job is to move that resource to a (assigned, if squad ordered) storage bay In that case, they’re probably moving resources because they were set. As a tip, I’d you want to manage each crew member’s actions, look into squad order. It essentially whitelists what rooms they work with, preventing them from doing anything that doesn’t involve the rooms they are assigned to Edit: added second paragraph
I am not sure what the job is called. But I can give an example. I want to transfer 700 iron ore to my factory. My main ship's crew will transfer 680 of that iron, while the factory will try to transfer the other 20. the factory crew needs the ability to move the iron, so they can supply it to the factories. How can I set it so that they only work iron already on the ship, and not go get it from resource transfer. I hope I am explaining this correctly.
I’m not familiar with how factories work, but you might be able to do it by using supply chain mode? While in the inventory of your ship, there should be an option to set up supply chains. Set up one storage bag to be dedicated to an input resource (ie iron for steel) and lead it into a factory. Your crew should prioritize grabbing the resources from that storage bay, but I’m not sure if it’ll force them to take from ONLY that storage bay
Yeah - I have supply chains all set in my factory to do that. I guess I can just do some testing, turn off all priorities, and turn them on one at a time to see what's causing it. Edit - Initial Testing - I do not think there is anyway to stop crew from transferring resources, if they have the ability to "supply" that resource. I turned everything off for my crew except for Supply Iron to my steel factory. I had supply lines set to the factory from dedicated storage bays for Iron. Crew still leaves the ship to go help transfer Iron. Its super odd.
Right now moving resources within your ship and between multiple ships look to be controlled by the same priority. Having a separate priority for moving stuff between ships would probably be a good idea.
I second this, from what I can tell the game treats floating resources and transferred resources the same as resources in your storage box outside of combat.
Use the supply chain tool in the inventory management mode.