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Processors, also known as factories, are used to convert one type of planetary resource or product into a different product. See [[Planetary Commodities]] for details on the various combinations you can use. A processor waiting for materials will have its "Progress ring" slowly pulsing. | Processors, also known as factories, are used to convert one type of planetary resource or product into a different product. See [[Planetary Commodities]] for details on the various combinations you can use. A processor waiting for materials will have its "Progress ring" slowly pulsing. | ||
For the first two tiers Processors are especially useful by decreasing the volume of the involved materials. Turning raw resources (R0) into P1 goods will reduce the total volume to about 25% of the original, and to another 25% of that if worked to P2 goods. After that point the volume reduction becomes less substantial and it becomes | For the first two tiers Processors are especially useful by decreasing the volume of the involved materials. Turning raw resources (R0) into P1 goods will reduce the total volume to about 25% of the original, and to another 25% of that if worked to P2 goods. After that point the volume reduction becomes less substantial and it becomes impossible to find a single planet to run the whole process perfectly from start to finish without the export/import of material.<br style="clear: both" /> | ||
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=== Advanced Industry Facility === | === Advanced Industry Facility === | ||
[[File:Ap2.jpg|left|frameless]][[File:AdvancedProcessor.png|right|Advanced Processor Window]]Advanced Processors are just like Basic Processors, with the exception that they produce P2 and P3 goods, | [[File:Ap2.jpg|left|frameless]][[File:AdvancedProcessor.png|right|Advanced Processor Window]]Advanced Processors are just like Basic Processors, with the exception that they produce P2 and P3 goods, with each either two or even three input products. | ||
Again you have to select a schematic and then route input material to the Processor. P2 schematics take exactly two P1 products as input, while P3 schematics take either two or even three P2 products. The icon of the structure will change to show two or three "bars" wrapping the icon based on whatever it is producing, so you ''cannot'' tell Advanced and High Tech Processors apart from their icon, although it would be easy to get that impression. | Again you have to select a schematic and then route input material to the Processor. P2 schematics take exactly two P1 products as input, while P3 schematics take either two or even three P2 products. The icon of the structure will change to show two or three "bars" wrapping the icon based on whatever it is producing, so you ''cannot'' tell Advanced and High Tech Processors apart from their icon, although it would be easy to get that impression. | ||
Advanced processors, like their Basic siblings, will store up to exactly one batch of input materials, so be careful about waste!<br style="clear: both" /> | Advanced processors, like their Basic siblings, will store up to exactly one batch of input materials, so be careful about waste! | ||
P3 advanced factories will need '''two''' p2 advanced factories feeding it per required input product to keep it running at full efficiency. | |||
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[[File:Hp2.jpg|left|frameless]][[File:HiTechProcessor.png|right|High Tech Processor Window]]At this point you probably think you've spotted the pattern with Processors and you're just about right! The only real surprise out of this final tier of Processor, which makes tier 4 Products (P4) is that they can '''only''' be built on Barren or Temperate planets. | [[File:Hp2.jpg|left|frameless]][[File:HiTechProcessor.png|right|High Tech Processor Window]]At this point you probably think you've spotted the pattern with Processors and you're just about right! The only real surprise out of this final tier of Processor, which makes tier 4 Products (P4) is that they can '''only''' be built on Barren or Temperate planets. | ||
They take three input goods, either three P3 or two P3 and one P1. Each output P4 item is a full 100 m3 in volume.<br style="clear: both" /> | They take three input goods, either three P3 or two P3 and one P1. Each output P4 item is a full 100 m3 in volume. | ||
You need 2 P3 factories per input product to keep p4 running at full production<br style="clear: both" /> | |||
== Storage Facilities == | == Storage Facilities == | ||