Printing Pod Reset time

[Zarquan]

I'm currently playing a challenge where I accept every duplicant and see how long I can go without a death.  However, the printing pod has an annoying tendency to shift later and later in to the cycle until, after a while, it starts printing the dupe in the next cycle.  When that happens, my instinct is to load the autosave every 3 cycles and pick a dupe before I unpause.  However, this only works once.  When I try to do it a second time, it says it needs about 3 more seconds before the dupe is ready.  Then the cycle after, around 6 seconds.  I believe the cooldown on the printing pod is 3 cycles + 3 seconds. 

I was thinking it would be nice if the printing pod cooldown was changed to 3 cycles - 3 seconds.  That way, if I am vigilant, I can actually move it backward in to the multiple of 3 cycle and not have to do the autosaving at all.  

[heckubis]

its allways 3 cycles from the last completion of it cycle. save just before it hits and you can re load it all you want . but the time change is the time you took to hit it last time. not from when it activated.

if you notice that you already missed it then do it it will be 3 cycles from when the printer prints the dupe or blinks closed.

you can wait on the printer to a better time schedule based on your needs so that it happens before dawn at auto save if you want would only take a cycle instead of 100

 

[Zarquan]

3 hours ago, heckubis said:

its allways 3 cycles from the last completion of it cycle. save just before it hits and you can re load it all you want . but the time change is the time you took to hit it last time. not from when it activated.

if you notice that you already missed it then do it it will be 3 cycles from when the printer prints the dupe or blinks closed.

you can wait on the printer to a better time schedule based on your needs so that it happens before dawn at auto save if you want would only take a cycle instead of 100

 

That used to be the case.  However, in the Cosmic update, I loaded, the printing pod was ready, so I printed before I unpaused.  Then, after 3 cycles, I loaded the autosave for that morning and the printing pod was not ready yet.  Said it needed a few more seconds.  And then the next cycle, it needed more time, and so on.

[heckubis]

hmmm sorry then cant help there i dont use the saving before printing very often but have no issues with it working that way may have been since you did it from the load game pause instead of it being just paused in game alot of the counters and timers dont correctly calculate untill the game is unpaused  after loading.

when i do do it i save 3-5 seconds before it actually hits the timer so i wouldnt notice

may have been that it calculated the time after the unpause for the initial startup and cool down of the printer