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Hi,
i started maybe 3 weeks ago a new space age game. The last time i played it and finished it was a few weeks after the release of SA. Now it feels like the production of ice platforms is very slow and it takes ages to build a new block (20x20). Has the receipt changed? Right now i have 8 green factories with modules to produce them....

Is my memory flawed or has it changed? How do you handle this situation?

They changed the rocket fuel recipe to fix a recycling loop. It could be your fuel production using more ammonia starving the ice platform producer?

I guess it is just my flawed memory. I am not yet producing rocket fuel on Aquillo ..... Thank you

The general speed of ice platform production hasn't changed.

I remember the balancing of ammonia, ice, water and solid fuel is delicate, especially to consume enough ice but not too much. All this with the space constraints given by the heating challenge with the heating pipes.

To give an idea of ratios and amount of buildings for these resources, this is my medium sized Aquilo base. There are 2 cryogenic plants for ammonia production boosted with speed modules, one boosted with productivity+speed for solid fuel, 6 productivity+speed boosted chemical plants for water, and finally 6 speed boosted assemblers for crafting the ice away to ice platforms. To get rid of surplus ice platforms, there are recyclers.

I'm not sure it's really required for a proper design, but I found out depending on demand, it can happen there is too much ammonia, so ammonia has to be destroyed, and on the other hand it can happen there is too much ice, so ice has to be destroyed. So the corresponding consumers are activated depending on this or on that, and the resulting products are set to be destroyed.

As i guess, your Base is abput the same size as mine (maybe) but i have no Lithium or science yet ....