PMC Undefined Farms 20km v0.1.9 harvest contract test.
2022-12-13T23:05:00Z todays test is to see if v0.1.9 field definition corner piece edits for few fields near the dealership fixed harvest contracts on tiny fields. Now these edited fields are larger.
2022-12-13T23:14:00Z Started a new career savegame, set everything up and of course F591 and F592 these two new larger fields had no harvest ready crops, F591 had planted cotton haha. So guess I'm time accelerating.
Looks like F321 is growing soybeans, this field is N-NW from the dealership and medium size, this could be my testing field if I'm so lucky to get an harvest contract for it when the time comes. Overall I have to say this testing is quite difficult now because the choices AI made with crops.
2022-12-13T23:30:00Z First I time accelerated 6000 speed, then continued with regular giants farmhouse 5000 speed, however the environment felt like its frozen in time, for example fields were all withered, in july there was SNOW on the ground and huge number of cultivating contracts were available. I did have better contracts lazy AI on for few of contract types, so dunno if that caused AI be just that, lazy.
While typing that above paragraph in-game jul 0954hrs snow melted from the ground and few fields changed stage to cultivated, so guess there is now something going on in the background, but for this year of course soybeans etc planting season is over already.
I'm speculating that 6000 speed time acceleration is too fast for 1888 fields to be calculated, same as all production stuff gets frozen with that speed as well, the highest safe time acceleration speed in my PMC Super Six 6km production savegame was 5000.
In-game oct 0923hrs slowly one by one fields get cultivated by the AI.
2022-12-13T23:40:00Z Decided to delete this savegame and start a new one, lets make it clean no 6000 time acceleration anymore and also with new savegame I might get good crops to those target fields.
On new savegame we got sorghum on F591 but it was still growing. In-game sep 0935hrs sorghum was harvest ready and I started to refresh contracts with dollar signs in my eyes.
Hammered refresh but unfortunately F591 sorghum harvest did not materialize, oh well time accelerating to the next day, hopefully then. But uh oh, my bad, sorghum harvest season ended september
2022-12-13T23:53:00Z Restarted savegame again but nothing but cotton and other crap crops
Did 3 more restarts and only got crap crops
2022-12-14T00:02:00Z With 4th restart got F321 as canola with contract to harvest it. However this is one of the bigger fields, 10ha, its nothing crazy but yeah I was kind of wanting to see that F591 or F592 right next to the dealership and they are possibly 5ha or something like that.
Decided to continue hammering those restarts, I wanna see good crop harvest contract on F591/F592
2022-12-14T00:08:00Z Fucking finally good crops harvest ready on those fields, and F591 wheat harvest contract, the field is 3.77ha size. Awesome, lets get this done.
Need to deliver (to go): 49.2k liters, yikes.
2022-12-14T00:14:00Z Started harvesting, GPS.
Hmm looks like I just started GPS without checking width, it now looks REALLY wide but still just barely cuts all the crop, hmm ok. Header was 3020 terraflex 25ft and GPS was configured to 9.14m width.
2022-12-14T00:21:00Z Combine grain tank 96% at end of a row, going to grab tractor + grain trailer.
2022-12-14T00:23:00Z Combine unloaded and harvesting continues.
2022-12-14T00:29:00Z Combine full, unloading.
2022-12-14T00:36:00Z Combine full, unloading, and while that is going on I'm going to unload myself in the head
2022-12-14T00:46:00Z Combine full, unloading.
Grain trailer is now full, combine was left with 4.6k liters in the tank. Continuing harvesting.
2022-12-14T00:50:00Z Combine full, driving tractor and grain cart to selling point.
2022-12-14T00:52:00Z Arrived at the selling point, contract HUD shows 80% complete, grain trailer has 37.5k liters, contract menu shows worked field 99.2%.
Dumped the trailer, contract said 74% transported and contract progress is now 95% with 11.7k liters to go. Okay back to the field to pick up the rest.
2022-12-14T00:56:00Z Combine unloaded, continuing the last half pass.
2022-12-14T00:57:00Z Harvest complete and last grain unloaded into grain trailer which now has 10.9k liters which is not enough... but going to drive to the selling point anyways.
2022-12-14T01:00:00Z Dumped grain to selling point, contract status now 100% got 366 profit from the remaining crop.
Wow did not see that coming, contract just BARELY managed to finish with the grain I got from the field. Hmm hmm. This is not good in overall, this is 3.7ha field and my speculation was that too small field doesn't work properly but apparently that is not the case, 3.7ha should be plenty of big elmcreek wise.
Hmm dunno whats going on.
Refreshed tons of new harvest contracts, browsed through all of them and in average you could say that "can keep" liters in these 0.91ha fields is about 500-700 liters which is ridiculously small amount, but then again so is the hectare size, so yeah dunno.
2022-12-14T08:31:00Z Edit
2022-12-14T08:08:00Z Harvest contract wont complete issue kept nagging me, so decided to try with my current mod-set on
elmcreek to see if that works. A reference point so to speak.
Started farm-manager game-mode on elmcreek, better contracts v1.2.6 was loaded. Refreshed contracts, got one for F46 which had "can keep" of 100 liters, wow one hundred whole liters, really? Haha.
Hmm that number looks even worse than PMC Undefined Farms 20km v0.1.9 numbers, let me take that contract and see what happens. Okay so F46 harvest contract for oat, field size 0.29ha whoah, must deliver 2k liters. F46 is the new farmer game-mode owned field.
2022-12-14T08:16:00Z Started harvesting F46.
2022-12-14T08:21:00Z Finished harvesting F46, combine grain tank got 2137 liters of oats, so I don't even need to deliver this as I can already tell that you can complete this contract with whopping 137 extra liters I can keep.
2022-12-14T08:23:00Z Aaand then I got bored, had no desire to go try out some other harvest contracts, what I saw earlier in PMC Undefined Farms 20km v0.1.9 and now here, it suggests pretty much that these harvest contracts "can keep" numbers have been GREATLY reduced by giants patch, not sure which one.
Here is quote from unreleased Start From Zero in undefined farms:
2022-05-08T02:58:47Z Accepted harvesting contract F30, delivery to PMC Sell 08, borrowed vehicles.
2022-05-08T05:26:33Z Finished harvesting sunflowers contract F30.
2022-05-08T05:46:48Z Semi-truck final delivery, contract obviously got completed, but I am surprised why it was this close, only couple thousand liters to go after the contract finished.
Collected harvest contract reward for F30, got 22.5k.
Cant remember how big field F30 was, but it was one of those medium if not giants wise big fields. So that was may 2022 and only couple of thousand liters of "can keep", so dunno what game engine patch was released in may.
Anyways.