Mobile Processing Lab Data

[surge]

I have a station orbiting Minmus with a MPL-LG-2, that has some 400+ data in it.

I have seen a video of other people using these new (v1 - I'm using 1.0.4) MPLs, and when they transmit the 'science', it empties out the corresponding data thus allowing more experiments to be processed.

Mine does not seem to be doing that. When I transmit science, the data value stays the same, and I now have some 20+ experiments in the station queued up!

Have I found a bug? Am I doing it wrong? I suppose most would be ecstatic about this - free science, forever! Not so much for me, this is my 3rd career game, and for once I wanted to send some probes to other planets before completing the entire science tree. At this rate, that Minmus station will fill it all by itself before I even get to Eve!

[SpeedDaemon]

The data is converted bit by bit into science as you research, not when you transmit the science.

The conversion is faster the more data is in the lab, so you want to keep it as topped up as possible (IOW, don't wait till data is empty to add new experiments - put them in as soon as there's room for them).

Edited September 26, 2015 by SpeedDaemon

[surge]

Interesting. In my case the data value has never changed since I filled it with science.

I recently had values of Data: 427.328, (and from memory) Science: 358, until I transmitted the science. If that's true, it would be impossible to get values for data and science that add up to more than 500, no?

[SpeedDaemon]

One data converts to five science, so it will deplete much more slowly than your science fills up.

Although if it's not changing at all, that would be a problem somewhere.

[basic.syntax]

Check out this thread for some detailed Q&A about the MPL, a lot of factors are taken into account.

[surge]

Data has been exactly 427.328 since this thread was started. It has been that since I first filled it with Minmus science, as I've already said. It has never changed.

I have now amassed 0.845... 0.851...0.882... i cant keep up with the rate as I have 2 3-star scientists on board! I am literally watching it rise, since the sending off of the 300+ before, not that it's relevant. Data is still 427.328.

RoverDudes thread has been read (at least his posts - not interested in people whining about it).

This will remain unanswered, and hopefully recognized as a bug someday...