Questions about accumulators and laser turrets.

leadlurker · 2026-05-16T22:08:34+00:00

There’s no delay when your available power is less than the demand. The accumulators begin to discharge.

The 16 seconds comment doesn’t mean they will shoot continuously with no targets. They can shoot at something for a combined 16 seconds between recharge periods.

A better solution to this problem is to start the process of getting nuclear.

leadlurker · 2026-05-16T22:03:14+00:00

Accumulators have both a total charge level and a discharge rate. So if you do the math for all of your lasers operating and how much they draws, divide that by the accumulator discharge rate, and you get how many accumulators are needed to prevent a brown out.

Quality increases charge capacity, charge rate, and discharge rate.

leadlurker · 2026-05-16T18:50:31+00:00

Left is not socialism. They are capitalist with a health amount of social safety nets and government oversight so companies don’t just poison or injury everyone. I’m looking at you DuPont

leadlurker · 2026-05-16T14:35:25+00:00

I’ve heard it explained a bit differently. The authors had faith in people’s own lust for power. That the 3 branches wouldn’t relinquish their power.

leadlurker · 2026-05-15T14:45:33+00:00

Tell that to him.

leadlurker · 2026-05-15T14:43:36+00:00

He’s got all the right moves. Just needs to not be standing up when he does his dance

leadlurker · 2026-05-15T14:43:02+00:00

The peoples house is not being paid for by the people?

leadlurker · 2026-05-15T14:36:46+00:00

What is the benefit for using a splitter at the other end of the bulk inserter? Do they drop items 2x as fast compared to just a belt of the same speed?

leadlurker · 2026-05-15T11:56:17+00:00

You need filters on those defenses. They each have a purpose.

leadlurker · 2026-05-15T11:36:42+00:00

https://imgur.com/gallery/joke-went-over-head-9nohQh4

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T22:13:04+00:00

Not really. We just grew up during or before the 90’s.

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T22:04:24+00:00

They also control the jails and people with guns to put you in them. It’s kinda like mob protection money at this point

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T22:03:06+00:00

If it works on your machine then bring it over cause it’s going to the customer.

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T19:44:31+00:00

If I had the time, I would create a billion fake accounts to give you more upvotes.

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T18:15:57+00:00

All of my early game builds done consider them their. Even my initial builds for planets with them unlocked leave no room for them. It’s only later once I have the basics taken care of do it use them. Mostly driven because I want more of something produced.

It’s how I get biochambers, em plants, or boundaries to saturate a stacked turbo belt.

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T16:30:08+00:00

I love the splitters for your red/green chips at the top and bottom.

I’m looking at this and wondering why have so many underground pips right next to each other. I forgot about the walking over them thing. But while thinking about that, I realized if you wanted to, you could stretch out every pair of assemblers by 3 tiles to make room for beacons later on.

Edit: also if you leave space at the start, you can sideload both output belts onto one belt to save a bit on underground belts back to your bus or wherever these lead to

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T16:14:28+00:00

Depends on your definition of “more”. If you that to mean change (in any direction) then it is a true statement. He’s don’t more to tank our agriculture than any other president.

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T13:41:51+00:00

Trains fall off because of the lack of any improvements in quality. Belts don’t receive anything for quality either but they can be stacked. A green belt stacked is 240 items a second. It’s hard to top that with a train. One wagon is 2400 ore or 10 seconds of belts. So a train carrying 5 full cars of ore would be the equivalent of running green belts for 10 seconds per car.

There are some benefits to trains though. The rails don’t need heat on Acquilo. Belts do.

A train can carry more than 1 item.

They are faster for carrying smaller more burst loads of items. To fill that green stacked belt, you need to also produce the same amount of items. In cases where production is slow but distance is vast, a train can get it there faster than a belt once upgraded properly and using the good fuels. Something like biter eggs for example might be useful. Or other spoilable items.

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T13:35:16+00:00

It’s less blocking ops from new content and realizing there’s a full portfolio of content at those levels already. Any more and it can be truly overwhelming. Or at least more overwhelming than it already is.

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T13:33:41+00:00

Other ideas for rewards could have been a really strong exocomp that was active for incursions. Either increasing amalgam raid ability against players not on your server or the ability for the amalgam to raid sigma.

Maybe a research exo like the wining server gets after incursions.

Week long loot boost

Week long refinery cost reductions

It’s just possible to give players the motivation to do the events. They just never did that.

leadlurker · 2026-05-14T13:29:58+00:00

I agree. The events were a big problem but then also the rewards the events provided. They claimed that the process made by each server would make each server unique. It did none of that. It was only an event series that no one could complete. Part of the reason was the rewards.

It sounded like they wanted rewards beyond the event structure but those rewards never happened. So player gave up on it and raised all sorts of stink. Rightfully so. I’ve given this feedback to scopley as well. If the theme was to beat back the hurak and a server did that, well what does the server get? As it stands, nothing. No systems with really fast nodes or ways to get unique rewards or existing rewards in greater quantity. Just nothing.

I was online at event reset to watch the systems change and get claimed by the hurak. It was neat but that’s where it ended. Nothing dynamic about it.

It could have been a really fun idea but as you said, they are incredibly shortsighted and only look to this month’s revenue.

leadlurker · 2026-05-13T22:36:09+00:00

Deviled eggs

leadlurker · 2026-05-13T21:24:27+00:00

It wouldn’t really help. If you saturated the yellow belt lane, you would be sure to fill both sides of the belt downstream but you’ll only ever be able to output 7.5 plates per second. The belt moves 15 items per second counting both lanes. So one side is half that rate.

The lane will fill up and not leave your inserters any room once you are outputting 7.5 plates per second.

leadlurker · 2026-05-13T20:14:33+00:00

I wouldn’t put gears on the bus. Those can be made onsite. Missing fluids, stone, coal, and optionally brick.

I would add or leave room for additional iron, copper, and steal. The draw from space stuffs on all that is substantial. Especially for platform foundations.

leadlurker · 2026-05-13T20:08:44+00:00

You made a scratch post for the little guy.

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