Same reason as the beacons. Have to waste the non-heavy oil biproducts. You get less solid fuel this way and hence need less power consumption.
But then if the rocket fuel backs up, you can't produce anymore blue belts ! that's precisely what this setup was made for in the first place i assume. ( or robot frame ?).MassiveDynamic wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 10:08 pmThat’s what I was afraid of. (Wasting power)
I would rather use the solid fuel and light oil for rocket fuel.
.You might have missed that one :
I tried with priority to the right, to the left, and came back to "no priority" : I want both at the same time. Steam for my coal liquefaction, and steam for my steam engines.
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/c game.player.selected.amount = 60000 --[[depletes the oil under the mouse cursor]]
It seems, that most people stop researching, stop producing modules and stop doing anything, except producing blue belts.MassiveDynamic wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 4:21 pmMaybe I'm missing the deeper meaning here, but I just train the rocket fuel to my rocket silos. I never have trouble consuming it there.
that's when you have finished all research except infinity one, and you prepare your next base, which requires tons of belts.
But the Concept will be used later in my Game and get beaconed like hell for my Roboframes (Automating Research, not Bots 
)!So i tested it and you can run 1 Refinery (no Modules) and 2 Chemplants (3xT3 Speedmodules) and it would still work but wont increase your Lube Production at all. I tried the same with 3 Chemplants and then the Heavy Oil gets sucked out immediately!
Dude, your Setup with that single Oil Pump? That is such a smart Move i can't believe it!eradicator wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:12 pmIs there any particular reason why everyone seems to use coal instead of raw oil? Raw oil is infinite in vanilla so to me it seems to be the better candidate.
If there's Oil around i would definitely stick with your Design but if not, the Possibility to use Coal and Water to produce Lube on site is a pretty nice Alternative.Thanks for the Numbers, i didn't had the Time to go deeper into thateradicator wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:12 pmI made a quick test setup which produces 570 lube/min from a single fully depleted oil patch. Mining Productivity is level 4. With level 3 (pre-space science) it drops to 530 lube/min. I measured the @OPs construct to produce about 600 lube/min. As blue belts cost 20 lube each you get about 300 belts/hour for every 100 lube/min, so that's 1700 belts/hour for mine and 1800 belts/hour for @OP.
Maybe there are lots of people who also don't produce much modules for this next base, which would suck up so much petroleum gas and light oil for cracking.
