Simple Questions and Short Answers

[aka13]

I'm in the middle of building a megabase, i have a question about efficiency modules. Is there a reason to minimize energy consumption of my machines on planets like Vulcan or Fulgora which have passive energy generation and no pollution/spores?

I guess the only limiting factor is the ups. So with minimal energy consumption setup i need more machines and more inserters, but less accumulators and solar panels. With full speed modules setup i need less machines (about 50%) and less inserters (but they will work faster, so ups wise it will be the same?) and much more (30 times) more accumulators and solar panels.

Solar panels/accus are "free" ups-wise, so usually you should optimize for inserter/machinecount.

[AlexRAwesome]

I'm in the middle of building a megabase, i have a question about efficiency modules. Is there a reason to minimize energy consumption of my machines on planets like Vulcan or Fulgora which have passive energy generation and no pollution/spores?

I guess the only limiting factor is the ups. So with minimal energy consumption setup i need more machines and more inserters, but less accumulators and solar panels. With full speed modules setup i need less machines (about 50%) and less inserters (but they will work faster, so ups wise it will be the same?) and much more (30 times) more accumulators and solar panels.

My first time there I didnt realize that the steam coming out was 500C so i was just using regular steam engines. I used 2 eff1s in most my machines in my first iteration of vulcanis because i got tired of expanding power over and over, but yeah calcite is so plentiful and acid is infinite, so speed and prod all the way.

I hear some people will beacon their silos with efficiency sometimes. I've got probably 200 on vulcanis and all of them running at once is well into GW, but i made a 9gw (22.5GW with legendary everything) fusion reactor design and its very set-and-forget for all my power on every planet so far.

[mmmPI]

I hear some people will beacon their silos with efficiency sometimes.

You can reach 400% productivity on rocket parts, and then it's capped, so there would be no more benefit to produtivity modules.

The same thing happens with speed, at some point you can increase the "crafting speed" of the silo, it won't make the rockets leaves faster because it's already as fast as the animation can display 2 rockets leaving the silo one after the other.

In such case, if you still have some module slots left available around the silo, it makes sense to put efficency.

[jdrexler75]

Is there a reason to keep researching Railgun damage buffs? They one-shot everything anyway, so it just seems like more overkill. (Shooting speed is another matter of course.)

[mrkev]

Is there a reason to keep researching Railgun damage buffs? They one-shot everything anyway, so it just seems like more overkill. (Shooting speed is another matter of course.)

Maybe If you wanna one shot the big demolisher.

[jdrexler75]

Maybe If you wanna one shot the big demolisher.

Right, I never considered that since there are better options, but a railgun one shotting the big one would be funny!

[mmmPI]

Right, I never considered that since there are better options, but a railgun one shotting the big one would be funny!

It is ! you can do that even without damage research if you shoot so that the projectile will pierce several segments. ( easier with the portable one )