Planetary Industry at the NSC: Difference between revisions

* Use the scanner to highlight the two highest density areas of resources on the planet. Use the scan slider until you only have one white spot left. This will be the highest density resource spot.

* Drop the Command Center (CC) somewhere close  to where you want to build your set-up. While it doesn't matter where you place the CC, whenever you (accidentally) double click somewhere else than your structures, your camera will centre on the Command Center. When you are ready to start putting down your PI set-up, place the CC and hit submit.

* Place an Extractor Control Unit on the boundary of the first resource hotspot.

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* Do the same on the second resource hotspot.

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* Place a Launch Pad in the center between the two Extractor Control Units.

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* Place 2 Basic Industrial Facilities, 1 Advanced Industrial Facility and 1 Storage Facility, in that order, in a line towards the first Extractor Control Unit.

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* Do the same in the other direction, towards the second Extractor Control Unit. Once you are happy with the layout, hit submit.

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* Install the correct Schematics for the commodities that you wish to build in each Industrial Facility. Basic Industrial Facilities produce P1 while Advance Industrial Facilities produce P2.

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* Open up the Extractor Control Unit. What we need to achieve here is a {{co|coral|program output higher than 12,000 Units per hour to achieve maximum efficiency}}. The longer your extraction cycles, the the lower your per hour output will be. The more Extractor Head Units you use, the higher the per hour output will be. Do this for both Extractor Control Units, making sure you are extracting the required P0 resource. Play around here, see what works, but generally 4 Extractor Heads and a 1 day extraction cycle should be more than enough to achieve maximum efficiency in the PC9 pocket. Always try to aim for as much as you can per hour though, as this will leave a surplus supply of P0 resources in your Storage Facilities that will allow the planet to continue to produce P2 if you are a couple of hours late to reset it, or just forget entirely.

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* Now comes the slightly more complex part of the build. We need to create routes to ensure that our products flow correctly between the various Industry Facilities and up as P2 commodities into our Launchpad. Unfortunately, this cannot be shown easily with images.

** Route each P0 resource from the Extractor Control Unit to the closest Storage Facility.

** Route each P0 from the Storage Facilities to the two Basic Industrial Facility that requires that product (You should have already installed the correct Schematics for the Basic Industrial Facilities earlier).

** Route the output P1 material from all Basic Industrial Facilities to the Launchpad.

** Route one of each type of P1 material in the Launchpad (You will see four listed if done right, two of each P1) to both Advanced Industrial Facilities.

** Route the P2 output from both Advanced Industrial Facilities back to the launch pad.

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* Hit submit one last time to turn the whole process on. If you wait a few hours, you can check your Launchpad to see if there is a nice pile of P2 commodities there. If you did, the Planet is set up correctly. The only interaction that you need to have with the whole setup is to re-start the Extractor Control Units to ensure that you maintain that magic number of 12,000 Units per Day.

Command Center Upgrades V allows us to add 2 additional Basic Industry Facilities and one additional Advanced Industrial Facility. This will increase the productivity of the Planet by 33%. To achieve maximum efficiency, the {{co|coral|Extractor Control Units will need to be running at 18,000 Units per Hour}} to keep up with the increased demand, you might need to drop to 3 Extractor Heads on one of your extractors to have enough space to fit the Advanced Industrial Facility. This might be difficult to achieve even with daily resets, depending on the resource density and size of planets. If you are using less frequent resets, it is probably best to simply add more extractor heads and stick with the previously described set-up of 4 basic and 2 advances facilities.

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