I think the simple solution would be to only check whether you have enough minerals for the first manufacturing cycle, and for the rest it's up to you whether there will be enough materials at the moment the next cycles begin. Maybe a confirmation, like "Not enough minerals for all the cycles, start anyway?". Of course the process will stop if it can't find enough. This would make your example work because the system takes minerals at the start of every cycle, and also delivers the end product of a cycle at the same time.

However this conflicts with your other request to take all the materials at the start, but that's no biggie since we can't do that anyway We'd have to simulate CT degradation for every cycle before they are even done, and that would complicate things.

Yes, you can turn off toasts if you click the events button on the bottom right and uncheck them in the settings tab.

Sheesh, if you turn off the Toast, then it is just bread!

Randomly added value?

ok, point taken.

Next Contestent: Ludlow Bursar
Specialist Subject: The bleedin' obvious

To put the emphasis back on my main point. There is a random element - get rid of it.

To add a bit to the very obvious we need production to be fixed back to a way where it was manageable to run 20 to 30 lines of items. As it stands right now I could pre calculate all components needed to make the items of all the lines I want but the problem is that when I do that my main hanger is going to be stuck …. I say this because if I refine the proceeds will just stack into what I am currently using for my lines and get mixed.

As mentioned I think it will be the best solution if we could have a drop down added to the factory window that allowed us to pick any folder we have access to, it could be as simple as :
Component Location:
Main Hanger
    Mod Production folder
    EwMech Production folder
Corp Hanger   
Lvl 1
        T1 stuff folder
Lvl2
        T2 stuff folder   
I think this issue nees to be addressed soon as it is what I think one of the things that should have been fixed before launch of Gamma as I said then http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … important/

Or just make a column in factory which gives the needs of all current jobs? Should be easy enough to compare this with your own storage.

+1
Please! this should atleast happen as it seems easy enough to complete. That way Comunistic corps with shared stock piles can just pull what they need easily instead of having 3 folders in my storage that I use while doing a spreadsheet, and god forbid a item completes while im doing my math. ><

I understand that the mat eff. of my CTs will change every time it cycles off another product and I can prepare for that buy adding in some extra mats.

I had some time to look at this again, and I found that the factory already works like requested: you can input more cycles than what you have minerals for, it only checks whether it has enough materials for the first cycle. It checks for materials at the start of every consecutive cycle and production will be aborted if it can't find enough.

Also we talked about input/output folders and it doesn't seem impossible, but it entails a lot of extra checks involving corporation storage access changes and stuff. We'll see how it works out, it would be definitely nice to have it.

You should definitely do the sensible thing like they have in EVE (trial account is easy to make for this) and have a role for "producers" which allows them to set an Input folder and an Output folder in corporation storage for their production lines.

That way people don't have to derp around with making sure every producing account has enough mats to produce their lines at all times, then drag the finished items to corp storage, more hassle is more hassle, blah blah.