Placing more than one ore extractor in the same location

[soopytwist]

Quick question I've not seen an answer to, with a cursory glance at Google, should I place ore extractors (T2 in my case) at the same location for the same ore, or put them at different locations on the map for the same ore?

For example Osmium is shown on the map in three places. Do I place extractors at all three locations or put three extractors in the same location for the same rewards but easier to collect from?

[Phoenix Cat]

You can place them all in the same place. I usually set up at least two.

[soopytwist]

Originally posted by brnphoenix75:

You can place them all in the same place. I usually set up at least two.

Cool. I wasn't sure if it made them less efficient. Glad to know I'm doing it correctly !

[The Illusion]

I set up 4 at each location, since one or two doesnt always cut it when I want to do some building.

[Padgey]

You can place as many as you want in any location as long as you have the power, the more you have the more resources you get quickly

[Trolling4Motorboating]

Originally posted by The Illusion:

I set up 4 at each location, since one or two doesnt always cut it when I want to do some building.

only 4? when there's room for so much moar.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3238032927

[Mordtziel]

Originally posted by Trolling4Motorboating:

Originally posted by The Illusion:

I set up 4 at each location, since one or two doesnt always cut it when I want to do some building.

only 4? when there's room for so much moar.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3238032927

dirty...inefficient...gross...all you need is 8 in a circle with a foundation grid in the center that has optimizers filled with production fuses.

As for OP, there's no advantage to multiple locations. Those locations more or less just exist to be closer to various bases. Pretty much just use the closest one. It'd be more impactful if you could limit where drones went and could setup multiple production facilities with their own mines but since you can't really do that...no point.

[Trolling4Motorboating]

Originally posted by Mordtziel:

Originally posted by Trolling4Motorboating:

only 4? when there's room for so much moar.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3238032927

dirty...inefficient...gross...all you need is 8 in a circle with a foundation grid in the center that has optimizers filled with production fuses.

As for OP, there's no advantage to multiple locations. Those locations more or less just exist to be closer to various bases. Pretty much just use the closest one. It'd be more impactful if you could limit where drones went and could setup multiple production facilities with their own mines but since you can't really do that...no point.

respectfully disagree with the term 'inefficient'. But sure, densely packed may be called dirty. But most certainly 8 in a circle was not anywhere all that was needed.

What I ended up doing with the multiple osmium patches; the one just beside the iridium cave near start was designated as the raw ore production (as it's close to the fusion cell factory). The two outlier patches focus on producing rods on site to maximize drone flight times. Similar for the iridium patches.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Mordtziel:

dirty...inefficient...gross...all you need is 8 in a circle with a foundation grid in the center that has optimizers filled with production fuses.

not like you ever go there to manually collect at that point. just stack em as tight as you can since drones don't care for a walkable path.

the real question is does placing a drone station (drone storage) near them noticeably increase spike demand efficiency or not.

[Mordtziel]

not like you ever go there to manually collect at that point. just stack em as tight as you can since drones don't care for a walkable path.

the real question is does placing a drone station (drone storage) near them noticeably increase spike demand efficiency or not.

Drone Stations only help at their delivery location, not from their pickup location. Unless you can give a reason for them to stockpile near the supply source (like having the station demand drones, but that will lock up 25 of your drones at that location).

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Mordtziel:

Drone Stations only help at their delivery location, not from their pickup location. Unless you can give a reason for them to stockpile near the supply source (like having the station demand drones, but that will lock up 25 of your drones at that location).

if you put it near the pickup location, they don't have to travel to the pickup location when demand kicks in.

bit of a moot point ofc since if you set up some automated crafting there is steady demand, but still.

[Mordtziel]

if you put it near the pickup location, they don't have to travel to the pickup location when demand kicks in.

bit of a moot point ofc since if you set up some automated crafting there is steady demand, but still.

They'll only be at the pickup location to start with if they have a reason to end their last trip there. They don't just spread themselves out naturally.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Mordtziel:

They'll only be at the pickup location to start with if they have a reason to end their last trip there. They don't just spread themselves out naturally.

yes? idle drones go sit in a drone station. that's the whole reason to place the drone station near the pick up point?

[Mordtziel]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by Mordtziel:

They'll only be at the pickup location to start with if they have a reason to end their last trip there. They don't just spread themselves out naturally.

yes? idle drones go sit in a drone station. that's the whole reason to place the drone station near the pick up point?

It is my understanding that drones go into the closest station to where they delivered their goods before being assigned a new task. As such, it would be better to have stations at their destinations so they can immediately be assigned new tasks instead of having to travel across the map to deliver goods, travel back across the map to the only station, and then get assigned a new task.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Mordtziel:

It is my understanding that drones go into the closest station to where they delivered their goods before being assigned a new task. As such, it would be better to have stations at their destinations so they can immediately be assigned new tasks instead of having to travel across the map to deliver goods, travel back across the map to the only station, and then get assigned a new task.

yes. if you put the drone station next to the extractor (or w/e you need them to do), it doesn't have to travel to the extractor.

as opposed to having the station at your main base, when it then have to first travel to the extractor before work can begin.

theres only room for 25 drones per station, so you can control where the drones go.

but again, pretty niche situation since in most automation setups you are bottlenecked by the extractor production speed anyways.

[Mordtziel]

theres only room for 25 drones per station, so you can control where the drones go.

This is not true. There are 25 slots you are allowed to see and put drones into. The drones can automagically store themselves into a full drone station. This becomes more obvious when you have a single drone station and more than 25 idle drones.