P.U.M.P.

by Xcone

P.U.M.P. (Prevent Unwanted Manual Pump-placement) adds a selection-tool with which you can select oil wells, and then plans the layout of pumpjacks and pipes for you.

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g Does it account for throughput?

3 years ago

Does P.U.M.P take into account the maximum throughput of the pipeline when planning the layout, or will it always connect all the pumpjacks to a single pipeline?

3 years ago
(updated 3 years ago)

P.U.M.P. will create pumpjacks for all selected oil wells and connects them to each other without taking throughput into account. You'll have to arrange the exit pipe yourself. P.U.M.P. is for the lazy people, not for the folk that want to squeeze everything out of every resource. :-)

That said, P.U.M.P. might still be helpful:

If you look at the gif on the info page, you'll see that the pipes converge in the middle. That would be a typical layout P.U.M.P. tries to achieve. If you disconnect the pipes at where they converge you might be able to manage throughput manually by making 2 or 3 exit pipes.

You can also just select half of the oil patch. P.U.M.P. will only connect the selected oil wells. So by selecting less oil wells, you'll get smaller groups of connected pumpjacks. P.U.M.P. is prevented from working if there are other pipes nearby. So this approach might work against you if you try split it in too many segments.

3 years ago

Okay. Thank you for the suggestion. I appreciate the work you put into making and maintaining this mod.

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