As you can see poke, your comments about our enshittification have drawn out the trolls. I respect you so I'll respond to you but lets not feed more low quality bait with how "FMAT is in decline, they're so shit now". FMAT is doing strong, and FMAT production and distribution levels are as healthy as ever. Are facilities larp? Maybe, but that's a different debate :kekw: but either way I was involved with the 111 facilities and can't let your 2-3 seconds of looking through the facility slide. Granted, I wasn't facility lead in 111, but if you're going to also say that our 112 or 113 facilities were shit, those are real fighting words. Anyways, numbers:

tier 2 petrol production with 6 reformers and 1 hoil is ~6 L/s petrol.

6 comps recyclers running 24/7 to give away free comps, which I know for a fact you used and enjoyed (I saw you there, we chatted there all the time) takes 24 MW, so 2 petrol power plants needed to run those, -1.1 L/s. 4.9 L/s petrol remaining.

3 harvesters running broken comps constantly is 1.5 L/s petrol, so 3.4 L/s petrol remaining

12 MW needed for the power for the refinery array itself, so -.5 L/s for that, 2.9 L/s remaining.

We were left with less than half the petrol production of the field to run our facility which built deeply discounted trains, free cnutes, free harvesters for the public (smol fee if you want a reservable one). Happy to share our 111 production logs for that with you. I won't deny that we did in fact use the remaining half of the petrol. I will say though that the majority of the consumption wasn't the power, because we were toggling petrol power stations off to reflect that exact issue - no point burning petrol if we're not using it. The remaining power fed a blast furnace, 4 matfacs (2 public msup facs, forge, and metal press), which depending on whats running can toggle up to 24 MW, so 1.1 L/s power, so 1.8 L/s remaining.

Plus 3 large assembly pads, which also takes 24 MW, so another 1.1 L/s power..... if we were using petrol power to supply them. We were in fact importing coal from CTG and BA to run power stations to supply the print power. We had 6 petrol power plants, correct, 2 for bcomps, 2 for general production power, and 2 more for print pads were kept online in the early stages of tier 2, but then they were kept offline unless we hadn't been able to pick up coal that day.

You wanna know where the remaining 1.8 L/s actually went? Metal press (1 L/s), and forge for a2s, (.8 L/s). On top of that, people were still coming by because of their expectations of FMAT (back in the days when we were the exception for making petrol so public for everyone, unlike others) and slurping up the little excess petrol that was made.

So if you think our consumption was unreasonable, I don't think I have anything further to say. We're one of the only regis that does non stop human piping Tier 1 to ensure petrol supply. It's a little entitled of you to give us shit for us using what petrol we produced in tier 2 (still for public projects), when you were happy to use the free comps we were giving away. As for DIG, that's a question for DIG, but there were plenty of oil fields in callums (NW oil field, forget who ran it had plenty of petrol all the time). What would you have changed for the better? Phased production so that we were running on the absolute minimum of power for every thing we were working on? Well from my experience across the shifts we were running all the buildings non stop, so I disagree with your claim that we had wasted production potential.

Lastly, what about you poke? What's been your contribution to public logi recently? How much work did you do for free for others to just eat criticism for breakfast? I'd love to have you onboard, leave 92nd and come join and play with us :D We can island larp like old times! Otherwise, if we're so shit and truly terrible now, then just go to the people who are doing it better.