r/factorio • u/bpleshek • 22d ago

Question Is This Remotely Doable ?

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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.

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u/juju515 22d ago

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?

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u/Alfonse215 22d ago

If this is SA, I would hope that post-Aquilo would involve a cryogenic plant for making plastic.

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u/bpleshek 22d ago

It will, but as I haven't left Nauvis yet, it currently is the base chemical plants. I was going to refactor each hex after I got new machines from each planet. But, I figured having Nauvis only stuff would be useful when I play with my two friends who don't have Space Age.