Your biggest complex ?

jlehtone · Post by **jlehtone** » Sat, 7. Oct 06, 16:31

Bunny wrote:The current record appears to be 672 stations?

No it is not. Several pages earlier in that thread X3FreakCartman lists over 700-station complex. Price: 5 billion. 180 Mines, out of which 144 are Silicon mines, and majority of those on Ore asteroids. 242 gPPC Forges.

And later, there is an over-1500 one, but spread over three sectors. Thus, not a single connected complex, but in practise is one closed loop. One loop with 99 million per hour potential.

The German Komplexbauguide has a section on: "How to build at 1 fps". So they may have something else than hardware. Patience?

szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sat, 7. Oct 06, 19:55

working on a mines of fortune mega complex
those pics are a lil old haven't got time to make new ones ill see if i can post new ones later i only have to tow 3 more roids,
average roid pulling time is about 3 hours now real time

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8352/x ... 173ri7.jpg
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/7041/x ... 174wg8.jpg

26 Silicon Mine L pieces with an avergae yield of: 24.88
60 Ore Mine L pieces with an average yield of: 17.7
13 Solar Power Plant XL
66 Crystal Fab M
43 Cahoona Bakery L
1 Cahoona Bakery M
43 Cattle Ranch L
1 Cattle Ranch M
8 Soyfarm L
8 Soyery L
35 Gamma PPC Forge
3 Beta PPC Forge
3 Alpha PPC Forge
5 Bio Gas Factory L
5 BoFu Chemical Lab L
5 Gamma PSG Forge
2 Beta PSG Forge
2 Alpha PSG Forge
12 Firestorm Torpedo Factory
5 Hornet Missile Factory
2 Tempest Missile Factory
2 Silkworm Missile Factory
1 Wasp Missile Factory
1 Mosquito Missile Factory
11 Beta Flak Artillery Forge
3 Alpha Flak Artillery Forge
8 Beta HEPT Forge
3 Alpha HEPT Forge
1 Shield Prod. Facility 10GJ
20 Shield Prod. Facility 1GJ
6 Shield Prod. Facility 125 MJ
3 Shield Prod. Facility 25 MJ
10 Shield Prod. Facility 5 MJ
10 Shield Prod. Facility 1 MJ
4 SQUASH Mine Factory

429 stations total,
towing the riods is realy an pain in the ass.

jlehtone · Post by **jlehtone** » Sat, 7. Oct 06, 23:51

szuur wrote:average roid pulling time is about 3 hours now real time

times 86 roids makes ...

szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 14:18

when i startedit was lower becouse i pulled the roids closest first but now only the most far out roids are left:P.

i am just watching a movie when i am pulling, and i am working at if for a month or so, haven't got much time to play but still...

i am making a 3x3 long row
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2973 ... 007tr5.jpg
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8172 ... 008bp7.jpg

pics from en i had 3 roids left.

bob hope · Post by **bob hope** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 14:35

My biggest complex was around the sector that is one up and one right of Thynns Abyss (i am useless with names). It actually went all round the whole sector. at the time it caused massive slowdown, and also meant that the in sector m1 and m2 could not go anywhere, lif should be easier now with the tractor beam

szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 14:43

i always build in boxes the biggest complexes i got atm are:
the hub is always +20 or -20 from the borg cube like box

coupel of pic's dope plex
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8255 ... 175ct5.jpg
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/6831 ... 176jh0.jpg
18 dream L fac's
18 Bliss place L's
9 Space fual L's
9 wheat L's
3 SPP XL's
cyrstals are imported from self sustaining loops

and a pic of hatikva's faith <mini version of the one i am building now>
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/8229 ... 177rk7.jpg

2 Firestorm Torpedo Factory
2 Wasp Missile Factory
5 Silkworm Missile Factory
5 Shield Prod. Facility 1 MJ
5 Alpha HEPT Forge
1 Shield Prod. Facility 125 MJ
6 Beta HEPT Forge
5 Lasertower Factory
2 Shield Prod. Facility 25 MJ
3 Shield Prod. Facility 5 MJ
9 crystal M
7 Cattel L
7 Cahoona L
3 SPP XL
3 sovery L
3 soyfarm L
10 ore mine met 22.1 average yield
6 silicon mines met 15 yield average

Kymura · Post by **Kymura** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 14:51

this is the complex im gonna start building in about 10 mins time.. once i finish designing the stations layout

5x Cattle Ranch L
5x Cahoona Bakery L
10x Crystal Fab M
2x Silicon Mine L
2x Solar Power Plant XL
3x Bliss Place L
3x Dream farm L
2x Space Fuel Distillery L
2x Wheat Farm L
1x Ore Mine L
5x Shield Prod. Facility 1 MJ
5x Shield Prod. Facility 5 MJ
1x Soyery L
1x Soyfarm L

Total Costs Complex 152.837.352
Break Even (hours) 59,41
Profit/day 46.454.260
Profit/day 61.737.995

Max Profit/hour 3.650.437
Avg Profit/hour 2.523.113
Min Profit/hour 1.395.789
Efficiency 70,47%

Number of Stations 47

szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 15:18

better make that 11 crystal fac's from my experiance u need about 5.5 every spp xl becouse the loop time is 1:00 and 0:59 so i would eventualy run outa crystals.
mine gona be: <extracted from complex calculator>
Turnover/hour 25.171.974
Costs/hour 0
Profit/hour 25.171.974

Total Costs Complex--2.309.326.688
Break Even (hours)---91,74
Profit/day--------------373.194.716
Profit/day--------------604.127.385

Max Profit/hour--------25.171.974
Avg Profit/hour--------22.807.582
Min Profit/hour---------20.443.190
Efficiency---------------100,00%

Needed Complex Kits 428
Number of Stations 429

bob hope · Post by **bob hope** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 15:30

this also brigs up the need for larger crystal fabs

Ammok Rules · Post by **Ammok Rules** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 15:32

mmmmmm.......it is probably a better idea to post your biggest complex AFTER you have finished it. I've got a complex with enough silicon and ore surplus to add another 100 weapons factories to it, but i havent, and once you actually start building you'll discover the reason why.

Unless your German, cos then you'll have the patience to build at 1fps.

szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 15:37

i alrdy posted pic's from my 2 biggest complexes with are finisched dope plex and hatikva's faith, besides my progress with the mega mines of fortune complex.
biggest problem is gona be getting the rep for the boron fac's i am afraid.

Snus · Post by **Snus** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 15:38

I better tell about my brand new complex in ore belt

I build it mostley for suppling weapons and stuff for my future fleet, but im not done with it.

All fabs are L or as SPP XL

4 silicon mines
4 ore mines
4 SPP
11 Biogas fabs
11 BoFu fabs
21 Crystal fabs
11 Chelt meat fabs
11 Rastar oil fabs
4 Beta HEPT fabs
6 Alpha flak fabs
8 Thunderbolt fabs
2 1 GJ shield fabs

= 97 fabs at moment

I always build complexes with a little over production of crystals, cuz its good when building a new complex somewhere just to transfer some crystals to it to keep it going for a start!

Cheers

szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 15:39

[quote="musso"]
All fabs are L or as SPP XL
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Didn't know they made crystal L fac's

CreHater · Post by **CreHater** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 15:43

I am still building it... About 3/5 done. Dragging the mines into position is taking me a VERY long time. I will need a couple more weeks to finish it. Still need to position about 16 mines.

When it's completed, it will be 349 stations, producing GPPC's, AFAA's BFAA's and 1GJ shields. Completely self-supporting and ready to make credits to buy and outfit my Pythons for sector support.

Profit per hour: approx. 24 million credits.

But, it's BIG already...

szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 15:45

How about everyone started posting more pic's of what they have build alrdy?
i only have to drag 2 more mines into position before i screeny my long finisched mine row, (unfinisched version is a page before posted)

CreHater · Post by **CreHater** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 16:20

What I've build already:
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szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 16:23

nice pic but ure alrdy linking the stuff up? i find its hard eneugh pulling roids without stations clogging up space, still nice and boxy, i only have 1 more roid to pull then i placed all roids in empire mines.
gona link em all up and start placing sppxl's linking em also ect. stations

what sector are u building in?

CreHater · Post by **CreHater** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 16:29

I build one layer at a time, and then connect that layer to the complex. And I use Bunny's Tractor Beam script to position the mines nice and easy.

Sector is Mines Of Fortune...

szuur · Post by **szuur** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 16:32

i don't use tractor beam script i feel its to much a cheat so i am doing it with the vanilla version.

its actualy a good idee to let the complex run while ure building it with the lil complexes o under 50 fac's u wheren done in no time but this will take much longer better let the placed fac's work or me.

CreHater · Post by **CreHater** » Sun, 8. Oct 06, 17:47

szuur wrote:i don't use tractor beam script i feel its to much a cheat so i am doing it with the vanilla version.

Well, it's up to you of course. In my opinion the script is making the tractor beam work the way it should be. Not loosing the lock each time... Would take me years then to build a compex like this.

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