Mid game advice - Yellow matrix

[compooter]

I feel yellow matrix is a big point in the game, it's when stuff starts to get serious, getting serious upgrades, unlocking crazy tech, starting the dyson sphere, and so on.

Who's got tips / ideas / recommendations for this stage in the game? Maybe more specifically for actual production of yellow cubes, because of organic crystals (annoying), but anything else is appreciated :)

[ulzgoroth]

Organic crystals are annoying, but straightforward. Just build and supply however many chemical plants you need to meet your demand and there you go.

The place people seem to get confused often is the need to obtain a bunch of titanium for structural matrix production before you can research interplanetary cargo transport. The solution there as you likely know already is to carry a load (or a few loads) of titanium home in your own inventory.

Note that you won't be able to really start the Dyson sphere for quite some time. While you can launch lightsails and get some beamed power from them, you need gravitational matrix production (in bulk) before you'll be able to build any sphere frames to stabilize the solar collection.

[posi]

I would not consider yellow as mid-game - that is still early. Even at the end of the research tree there is plenty of stuff to make. AFAIR you need nearly 15000 white matrix for research. Plus the loads of material for the sphere. You should get used to these huge production chains. Building green matrix on a proper scale took me many hours but when the first cubes arrived it was very satisfing!

[3Ddeath]

Its the moment you realize how much space chemical plants take up and the space you reserved for them is not enough so you gotta rethink your entire design ;)

[Mister Veeg]

start exploiting more of the oil seeps if you haven't already. You can use the oil to buff your organic crystal production and the hydrogen to beef up your power supply (if not interested/able to make it into deuterium)

[JOKESTER215]

when it gets serious? purple imo is more mid tier to me tbh. while green is more mid-late. and of course the dyson swarm/sphere/white science is late tier :)

[JOKESTER215]

Автор сообщения: 3Ddeath

Its the moment you realize how much space chemical plants take up and the space you reserved for them is not enough so you gotta rethink your entire design ;)

not... really? then again I live on spaghetti so eh... to each their own :P

[yes]

ah the yellow cube phase, have fun drowning in hydrogen until you reach some purple tech that can keep up with it ...

... and once you get to another system that can farm organic crystals you can tear it all down again ^^

edit:
that sounded really bad didnt it? nah its fun, i like puzzles

[compooter]

Автор сообщения: posi

I would not consider yellow as mid-game - that is still early. Even at the end of the research tree there is plenty of stuff to make. AFAIR you need nearly 15000 white matrix for research. Plus the loads of material for the sphere. You should get used to these huge production chains. Building green matrix on a proper scale took me many hours but when the first cubes arrived it was very satisfing!

Right, I agree. Using the term "mid game" was probably misleading/not correct.

[3Ddeath]

Автор сообщения: yes

have fun drowning in hydrogen until you reach some purple tech that can keep up with it.

If I knew that then I would have filled 20 tanks of the stuff to save it for later.

[compooter]

Автор сообщения: JOKESTER215

when it gets serious? purple imo is more mid tier to me tbh. while green is more mid-late. and of course the dyson swarm/sphere/white science is late tier :)

Right, I agree. I mean this is arguably just the start of serious. Because then on every tech unlock is huge I feel like.

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

As soon as you hit yellow, you should beeline for the INTRA-planetary logistics towers.

Once you have those, your factory spaghetti can be turned into isolated fabricator arrays. And I'm pretty certain that's the intent. You get your spaghetti turned into isolated arrays, and then moving supplies around simplifies greatly. At that point, it becomes a matter of just duplicating the footprints of what you need wherever you go. Pull resources in, send them to a factory complex, push that to storage, consume later.

[Wish Maker]

Автор сообщения: compooter kebord

I feel yellow matrix is a big point in the game

Trust me, Purple is WAY bigger.

[compooter]

Автор сообщения: System Senpai

Автор сообщения: compooter kebord

I feel yellow matrix is a big point in the game

Trust me, Purple is WAY bigger.

Yeah, I don't doubt it. The lack of late game experience I have shows....

[ulzgoroth]

Автор сообщения: System Senpai

Автор сообщения: compooter kebord

I feel yellow matrix is a big point in the game

Trust me, Purple is WAY bigger.

I felt like purple was mostly just a speed bump on the way to green. What new things can you do with just purple?

...Well, technically maybe FTL travel? But once you've got that you really might as well research green for the more efficient space warping if nothing else.

[Clover]

Excess hydrogen becomes a problem. To minimize it, burn the excess you have for power and get your graphite from coal (just until green tech) rather than oil to limit hydrogen production.

Think of the dyson sphere/swarm as how you get antimatter for white science so don't bother with that until you're into green science. It's a very resource-inefficient way to generate power.

Setup clean separated construction areas for each item, supported with independent planetary logistics hubs (not interplanetary ones). Use only the minimum necessary logistic drones. Build your interplanetary hubs together in an organized area and in general try to just use them for import/export and not internal goods movement. These suggestions might seem unnecessary now but you'll be glad your organized it in this way once you start changing the production of certain components to special resources and you start doing interplanetary logistics and need to get warpers in all your hubs.