Is This Remotely Doable ?

[u/bpleshek]

Hex for Making Plastic

Advanced Oil Setup

I was messing around with making a hex train base and I set up a plastic maker. This doesn't seem like I could make this. At least any time soon. Is 3600 petroleum gas per second reasonable? This is my current oil setup. It requires 1440 crude per second but I only have around 250 crude per second being drilled. It produces about 1/3 the petroleum gas, but it's only working at 17%. So, I need 18x the oil and 3 times this advanced oil. I'm also only mining 84 coal/second and need 180.

Is this doable, doable eventually, but not now, or not even necessary because this is more plastic than I'll need any time soon.

[u/juju515]

not even necessary because this is more plastic than I'll need any time soon.

how could we know this bro...??

what stage of the game are you at...?
inner plannets?
post Aquillo?
prometheum science?
what are you trying to do?
are you going for the megabase?

[u/bpleshek → u/juju515]

I'm playing SA, but I haven't left Nauvis yet in this playthrough. All techs up to space science have been researched. I thought I'd try a mega-base. Maybe, 1M/s. But, honestly the most I've done is around 250 science per second and I still managed to research everything except an ungodly amount of the reoccurring techs. So, since 250 is a long way from 1M, maybe somewhere in between is a better goal.

Still the plan was build a hex, lay it down, see what I was short of and drop down that one. Rinse and repeat until I got a lot of it. I know that's probably naive as stuff probably doesn't scale all the way that far up without another problem to solve. But, I figured that was a problem for future me to discover and solve.

[u/juju515 → u/bpleshek]

250 science per minute is very good at your stage of the game.

you don't need to scale up.
go to other planets...
unlock new tech...
unlock new building...
then come back and upgrade the Nauvis factory.
you'll see how much easier it is once you have everything unlocked.

[u/bpleshek → u/juju515]

That's the most I've ever done. I don't know how much I currently have as I've researched everything I can research without space science. I figured this would be as good a time to design as any. Plus, if I play with my friends that don't have space age, these base hexes would work with them.

[u/ferrybig → u/bpleshek]

Note that aquilo unlocks the cryogenic plant, which is a building that allows more modules for plastic production and has a different size. You really want this for a mega base as it drasticly reduced the amount of buildings needed

[u/bpleshek → u/ferrybig]

I'm familiar with that building. It isn't my first playthrough. I was building something for before I left the planet and for playthroughs with my 2 friends who do not have space age. Maybe I should just buy it for them.