Please explain the "why" of asteroid reprocessing?

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Please explain the "why" of asteroid reprocessing?

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I kind of get what the numbers say, but I do not understand how this will benefit me and embiggen my factories? Does it translate into larger amounts of ore or just even out the numbers? Or does it allow me to target more of a specific ore?

How does it work with the Gleba asteroid research?
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Re: Please explain the "why" of asteroid reprocessing?

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Well, you may have noticed already that different routes/orbits of planets have different spawnrates for each of the 3 asteroid types.

And there are totally situations where you might want one of the asteroid types to be more common because you want more of the resource they give.

The asteroid reprocessing then helps you with that issue because it lets you recycle the chunks that you don't need & have too many of into the type of chunks that you want to get more of. ^^

Especially for static platforms that you never intend to move away from an orbit that is the solution to deal with the issue. With moving platforms you might have the issue less because there you naturally get more asteroids of every kind and may not necessarily need to reprocess them into another type.



And with the Gleba research do you mean the Advanced Processing or do you mean the infinite research tech? ^^

The advanced processing allows you to get additional resources like Sulfur and Calcite and copper ore spaceplatforms. ^^
And the infinite research just gives you more stuff per processed chunk.
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Re: Please explain the "why" of asteroid reprocessing?

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MeduSalem wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:08 pm ...And there are totally situations where you might want one of the asteroid types to be more common because you want more of the resource they give.

The asteroid reprocessing then helps you with that issue because it lets you recycle the chunks that you don't need & have too many of into the type of chunks that you want to get more of. ^^

Especially for static platforms...

The advanced processing allows you to get additional resources like Sulfur and Calcite and copper ore spaceplatforms. ^^
And the infinite research just gives you more stuff per processed chunk.
That's all very useful to know. Much appreciated!!!

Now I just need to figure out how I'll set it up.
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Re: Please explain the "why" of asteroid reprocessing?

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Reprocessing practically means that the asteroid arm filter is mostly necessary. Take everything and convert it into whatever you want.
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