Er'cana control room panel - never noticed this before!

susanszy · **Joined:** Fri May 12, 2006 1:14 pm **Posts:** 61

This may have been reported before, but I never knew or heard of this -
when you have pellets in the oven, take a look at the control room panel, to the far left!

Here's a pic - I had three pellets left in the ovens at the time:

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Ged_UK · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:21 am **Posts:** 508

Cool, great spot!

Traveler · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:39 pm

I thought that control panel just meant the oven was turned "ON", not a status of a pellet...?

Can you cook more than one at a time? I didn't seem to be able to...?

Traveler

Ged_UK · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:21 am **Posts:** 508

He means the image of three little pellets

Ichabod_L · **Joined:** Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:51 am **Posts:** 501

Yeah, I just noticed that yesterday and was all "Awww, how cute."

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Plus, this will help with people sharing Er'cana instances in order to hurry up lighting the lake by having them only run to there and see if they're done as opposed to all the way to the ovens.

dmuk · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:44 pm

Ichabod_L wrote:

...hurry up lighting the lake by having them only run to there and see if they're done as opposed to all the way to the ovens.

Well, you don't usually have to run.
[spoiler]Just press the Journey cloth nearest the ovens (push the rock if you have to) and then simply link there directly.[/spoiler]
D'nn (dmuk)

Ichabod_L · **Joined:** Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:51 am **Posts:** 501

dmuk wrote:

Well, you don't usually have to run.
[spoiler]Just press the Journey cloth nearest the ovens (push the rock if you have to) and then simply link there directly.[/spoiler]
D'nn (dmuk)

If you're going to someone else's instance of Er'cana (so that you can all periodically check if the pellets are done and dump them for others, thus speeding up the lake lighting process), then you do have to run from the beginning.

There's an interesting thread on it over here.

Tayr · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:11 pm **Posts:** 403

That screen will also show a representation of the harvester's cart if you have it pulled into the facility (which most people probably don't). Nice little touches.

Erik · **Posted:** Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:22 am

Cool, didn't notice that before.

I also discovered this yesterday: in the lower left corner of the oven screen you have 5 holes, and when you have some pellets ready, you'll see gold dots in those holes.

Herohtar · **Joined:** Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:45 pm **Posts:** 2553

Nice! I'd never looked at the control panel when I had pellets ready.

DASauer · **Posted:** Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:15 am

What is the harvester's cart?

ireenquench · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 5:06 pm **Posts:** 1591

The harvester being the train, the cart is the part that can be disconnected from it to ride into and out of the facility.

Wafna · **Posted:** Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:32 pm

The pellet icons were there in TPoTS as well. I was one of those who didn't realize you could move the stone at first, and I used those icons to tell if my pellets were ready.

Ichabod_L · **Joined:** Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:51 am **Posts:** 501

Tayr wrote:

That screen will also show a representation of the harvester's cart if you have it pulled into the facility (which most people probably don't). Nice little touches.

It sure will.

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Gelwyn · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:59 am

Erik wrote:

Cool, didn't notice that before.

I also discovered this yesterday: in the lower left corner of the oven screen you have 5 holes, and when you have some pellets ready, you'll see gold dots in those holes.

I just noticed that today!

No pellets in the dispenser
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Pellets in the dispenser
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I also didn't know, until this point, that the metal dial on the left actually represents how much time is left in the cook cycle. The first image I linked was a couple minutes before the pellets finished cooking. The second image was right after I had started the cook cycle again. You can start the ovens to cooking again before dumping your pellets, in case anyone didn't know that.

Er'cana control room panel - never noticed this before!

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