Factory waste in X-BTF

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Factory waste in X-BTF

Post by havoccau2020 » Tue, 27. Jul 21, 23:48

I built my first solar power plant factory and fed it crystals. It looked like the factory continued to use the crystals even when I had 5,000 energy cells in storage, thus wasting them. Is this true?

Also, the guide I had said it was 45 cells made per crystal, but I put just one crystal in the factory and had 80 cells at the end of the process.

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Re: Factory waste in X-BTF

Post by The Q » Sun, 1. Aug 21, 09:59

havoccau2020 wrote:
Tue, 27. Jul 21, 23:48
It looked like the factory continued to use the crystals even when I had 5,000 energy cells in storage, thus wasting them. Is this true?
Unlikely. Might start production, but shouldn't reach 100 %.
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Tue, 27. Jul 21, 23:48
Also, the guide I had said it was 45 cells made per crystal, but I put just one crystal in the factory and had 80 cells at the end of the process.
What guide?
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Re: Factory waste in X-BTF

Post by havoccau2020 » Mon, 16. Aug 21, 06:35

The one that comes as part of the STEAM version of the game.

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Re: Factory waste in X-BTF

Post by Alan Phipps » Mon, 16. Aug 21, 10:24

Isn't solar plant energy production efficiency affected by the sector sunlight percentage?
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Re: Factory waste in X-BTF

Post by CrescentSun » Wed, 18. Aug 21, 05:28

Not in Beyond the Frontier. I think that was added in X-tension.

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Re: Factory waste in X-BTF

Post by Alan Phipps » Wed, 18. Aug 21, 09:23

OK, thanks.
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Re: Factory waste in X-BTF

Post by Praefectus classis » Fri, 20. Aug 21, 10:21

The last time I played XBTF I noticed that solar power plants in XBTF do continue to use crystals even after the factory is full. I'm not sure if it's a lower rate or not though. Earlier in the game and f I was in the sector, I used to remove some of the energy cells so as to not waste the crystals. The factories also peak out at 20 million credits in XBTF.
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