Setting up a planetary colony: Difference between revisions

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If you hook the extractor directly to the processor, you might end up throwing away resources if there is an uneven lot when it fills up (Processors accumulate resources until they have an even lot of input product (eg P1 would be 6000), and then start processing. If the buffer has 5950 in it, and the extractor delivers 210, then 160 units are lost. If there is inputs in the buffer when you change the schematic, they are lost. You can buffer with a storage facility or just live with the loss. If you are living with the loss, you can reduce it somewhat by staggering your extractors' cycles to minimize the chance that two extractors deliver at the same time.

== Your First Colony ==

By way of introducing you you the user interface, let us install a colony.

Fly to the system, and sit in space cloaked (doing this in 0.0, stealing resources from The Syndicate).

* Select Planet in Overview

* Enter Planet Mode

* Place Command Center

* Submit

* Place Extractor

* Place More Extractor

* Create Links

* Place Processor

* Choose Schematic

* Place Launch Pad

* Create Links

* Submit

* Survey Extractors

* Create Routes to Launchpad

* Create Route Launchpad to Processor

* Submit

* Wait 15 minutes

* Had a little bit of power/CPU left, so add 2 more extractors, Submit

* Check out the Competition

* Check on Processor Buffer

* Wait 15 minutes

* Processor Starts

* Wait 30 minutes

* Horray! Product. Now you can move to Interplanetary Logistics to get your stuff off planet.

* Observe that this is in really good deposit, and will be building up a backlog for the first 24 hours, and then work on that backlog over the next little while waiting for you to come back to and re-survey the extractors.

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 If you hook the extractor directly to the processor, you might end up throwing away resources if there is an uneven lot when it fills up (Processors accumulate resources until they have an even lot of input product (eg P1 would be 6000), and then start processing.   If the buffer has 5950 in it, and the extractor delivers 210, then 160 units are lost.  If there is inputs in the buffer when you change the schematic, they are lost.  You can buffer with a storage facility or just live with the loss.  If you are living with the loss, you can reduce it somewhat by staggering your extractors' cycles to minimize the chance that two extractors deliver at the same time.
+== Your First Colony ==
+ By way of introducing you you the user interface, let us install a colony.
+Fly to the system, and sit in space cloaked (doing this in 0.0, stealing resources from The Syndicate).
+* Select Planet in Overview
+* Enter Planet Mode
+* Place Command Center
+* Submit
+* Place Extractor
+* Place More Extractor
+* Create Links
+* Place Processor
+* Choose Schematic
+* Place Launch Pad
+* Create Links
+* Submit
+* Survey Extractors
+* Create Routes to Launchpad
+* Create Route Launchpad to Processor
+* Submit
+* Wait 15 minutes
+* Had a little bit of power/CPU left, so add 2 more extractors, Submit
+* Check out the Competition
+* Check on Processor Buffer
+* Wait 15 minutes
+* Processor Starts
+* Wait 30 minutes
+* Horray! Product.   Now you can move to Interplanetary Logistics to get your stuff off planet.
+* Observe that this is in really good deposit, and will be building up a backlog for the first 24 hours, and then work on that backlog over the next little while waiting for you to come back to and re-survey the extractors.