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In Space https://i.imgur.com/pjXWUS6.png
Map View https://i.imgur.com/F2ilb6j.png
This was built with manual placement and asteroid hauling. Production is scaled proportionately for Trans Orbitals Accelerator Construction Kits.
Mistakes I made:
- In my haste to make the most out of upgrade kits I started designing the complex with a single XXL Quantum Tube Fab and scaled the rest of the complex based on its production. What I should have done instead is consider how long it takes to actually craft a TOAck and meet that demand. As a result this factory produces goods faster than the HQ can even consume them (1.74x too much)
- When calculating whether or not to use upgrade kits I forgot to include the cost of Complex Extension Kits (Dang that's a lot of BoFu/BoGas fabs!)
- I assumed 11 XXL silicon asteroids would get the job done. I came up short. Oh well, nothing a few assigned dedicated miners can't fix!
- Adding asteroids is clunky. It requires that asteroids be in the sector you selected and scanned. I should be allowed to simply add theoretical asteroids. To get around this I started by building the complex consisting of only the 11 silicon mines and then loaded that pre existing complex into the planner and saved it which led to my next 2 gripes
- When you load a pre existing complex into the planner it cannot be edited. You can add new stations but cannot edit what's already there.
- The complex planner changed its cycle time to 01:20:00 because of the quantum tube fab but the cycle time for my silicon asteroid complex in the planner was at 01:00:00. So to compare how much silicon I was producing to how much I was consuming I had to math it out. It would be really nice if the cycle time could be manually adjusted. This would have made things even easier as I could adjust the cycle time to the crafting time of TOAck [04:24:16]
- It is not always prudent to have exactly the same amount of stations upgraded to the same level. Maybe I need 10 XXL solar plants and a single L. The planner does not allow this (Unless you mix races)