Metadata misunderstanding?

[poohbag]

Hi

I am clearly missing something about metadata. I have all my production up to white cubes running but how do they feed into the metadata central brain. I am not actively producing any cubes as I am midway through researching a late game tech. Thus my storage (ILS) is full of cubes and I cannot make more as there is no room to store them. But the tutorial talks about adding to your inventory which makes no sense to me.

I am currently sitting on 175 white cubes in the metadata. No idea how they got there.

[matke587]

The metadata is for use on a new start. It allows you to instantly unlock tech so you don't have to wait for said tech to be researched. But you can't use it on the game you made it in.

The metadata is acquired from making so many colour cubes per hour, so as long as you have full continuous production of white cubes your available amount for a new game will continue to increase.

[josmith7]

Metadata doesn’t consume any cubes. Instead it is based on the average of the rate you’re already consuming cube for whatever it is you’re researching.

So making extra cube doesn’t boost metadata. Only speeding up your research does.

(And then, as matke587 said, that metadata is only useful if you started another play through; where you could spend it to accelerate your early game research there)