Giant complexes / shipyards and methane

[RegisterMe]

I'm currently at the point where I can start thinking about the location of and infrastructure required to support a ship building operation. I keep looking at the map and thinking to myself that Nopileo's Fortune VI makes the most sense location wise. And then I wonder where my closest methane source is:-

* Eighteen Billion? Three jumps away.
* Pious Mists IV? Two jumps away and Khaak infested.
* Pontifex's Claim? Two jumps away and meh crazy religious dudes.
* Trinity Sanctum III? Three jumps away and nice friendly crazy religious dudes.

That's a lot of travel time for such a mundane resource, but I can't see anywhere better on the map, given additional requirements like "close to the ring" and "claimable sector".

So given that it's a lot of travel time, perhaps I am better having a large graphene fab close to a source of methane and then shipping in the graphene, if only to reduce the volumes involved?

Does anybody have any thoughts, words of wisdom, experience to share etc?

Cheers,


RM

[radcapricorn]

All I can say is that I've never had any issues with methane supply for graphene fabs located in Nopileo's Fortune VI.

[RegisterMe]

All I can say is that I've never had any issues with methane supply for graphene fabs located in Nopileo's Fortune VI.

hmm, it sounds like I've missed something obvious then. I'll go have another look.

[radcapricorn]

hmm, it sounds like I've missed something obvious then. I'll go have another look.

I've just re-checked that save, there's a source of methane in

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Grand Exchange III, which is, technically, one "gate" away (for the purposes of ship travel limits). M miners love it. L miners love it too, but they would take a crazy route getting there.

[RegisterMe]

hmm, it sounds like I've missed something obvious then. I'll go have another look.

I've just re-checked that save, there's a source of methane in

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Grand Exchange III, which is, technically, one "gate" away (for the purposes of ship travel limits). M miners love it. L miners love it too, but they would take a crazy route getting there.

Really useful, thank you. I'll go poke around there and find it.

[RegisterMe]

heh, it looks like one of my miners had already found that patch. Though why a methane miner based in Eighteen Billion would go there when it has better concentrations, on its doorstep, uncovered by a resource probe, is beyond me.

Still, the main thing is availability and proximity, so thanks for the steer .

[radcapricorn]

You're welcome

Yeah, AFAIK they don't really care if you've prospected and just go wherever they please.

[Buzz2005]

grand exchange III has it all, gases and minerals, I guess thats why its the HQ sector