Harvester Mk II stopped building

[Ozymandiaz]

Ok, so I decided to try the Mk II harvesters to see what yield they would give me compared to the knowledge cost.

I got a 120 planet map and a few planets.

I decided to scrap all my old harvesters to make way for the new ones.

However, they suddenly stopped building, despite me still having some income (I already built a few of em).

See attached save. Planets on the left have been making the harvesters that have just stopped building.

[keith.lamothe]

Um, when I load the save I see 0 metal and crystal stockpiles with negative income for both (-534/s and -663/s, respectively).  What income you do have come in will be consumed by your plenteous energy reactors first, and if any is left over it goes towards constructions, but it doesn't seem that any is left over.

Were you seeing something different?

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, when I scrap a ton of ships and shut down most of the energy-reactorIIIs, your income goes "up" into the -300s or so and your harvester IIs start rebuilding (though that may be due to the scrap rather than the income change, but anyway).

You had basically run your economy into the ground and then kept digging in until the drills stopped

[Ozymandiaz]

doh!

of course!

This is what I get for trying new stuff while I run back and forth to the stove make myself dinner at the same time. I could have sworn I had plenty stock pile to build em all, but apparently I did not

ahem, just discard this false bug report, and sorry to bother you ;P

[keith.lamothe]

No need to be sorry, I'd rather get false reports mixed with true ones rather than no reports

[Ozymandiaz]

However, I did notice an anomaly on this particular save. Planet Iusdo (my bottleneck planet). I got 5/3 metal extractors there, that happened after I patched the game to 3.180 and loaded.