Laser gun stages.

[Robwinter2]

Does anyone know a place where I could find a list of items needed for each of the stages and their amounts?

[bcrehore]

+1

We should be able to multitask, instead of playing I've got a secret!

[The Illusion]

Hint: Everything. In thousands. Good luck completing it. Doubt anyone actually has

[Alukat]

Originally posted by The Illusion:

Hint: Everything. In thousands. Good luck completing it. Doubt anyone actually has

on my first attempt i cleared stage 3 when 66% of the time had passed.
in my second attempt, current one, i can clear stage 3 with about 40% of the time passed and i already have lots of ressources for stage 4.

so i guess with more experience and min-maxing it's doable. (and ofc you need to savescam when critical bugs happen)

[Starvexx]

Originally posted by Alukat:

Originally posted by The Illusion:

Hint: Everything. In thousands. Good luck completing it. Doubt anyone actually has

on my first attempt i cleared stage 3 when 66% of the time had passed.
in my second attempt, current one, i can clear stage 3 with about 40% of the time passed and i already have lots of ressources for stage 4.

so i guess with more experience and min-maxing it's doable. (and ofc you need to savescam when critical bugs happen)

That sou ds promising. I myself have just cleared stage 3 at 75% of the time passed. Probably wont be able to finish the damn thing on time though :/

But I now have a neat setup to load the damn cargo truck without the stupid drones for next time.

[Alukat]

Originally posted by Starvexx:

But I now have a neat setup to load the damn cargo truck without the stupid drones for next time.

having 3 trucks, 1 truck for each ressource (stage 1-4, 5+ is unknown for me atm) , speeds things up to. i.e., as soon as the titanium truck leaves can start loading the steel truck and as soon as the steel truck leave loading bricks on the 3rd truck.

[VladK02]

is the laser event hard-coded to start on a certain date?
or can you delay it for as long as possible by not completing previous storyline stages for as long as possible?

i dont know, im asking because i just got stage 1, saw it needs 4k of each resource, and realized, i wasted a ton of time when i should have been expanding the base constantly :P

[The Illusion]

Originally posted by VladK02:

is the laser event hard-coded to start on a certain date?
or can you delay it for as long as possible by not completing previous storyline stages for as long as possible?

i dont know, im asking because i just got stage 1, saw it needs 4k of each resource, and realized, i wasted a ton of time when i should have been expanding the base constantly :P

Yep. Should be finding and exploiting the entire underground area as fast as possible. Finding 3-4 veins of everything (iron, silicon, titanium and aluminum) is a major goal. Also finding 2 ice veins is required for decent fuel production and another one could be used for water/oxygen

[Zebulan]

It hasn't been said in this thread, so perhaps it's not obvious to all, but remember that there's a cargo elevator! You can hook up your resource storage to a conveyor that goes to the surface and connects to the expedition centre. So, for anyone that pops into this thread and hasn't thought of a use for cargo elevators, now you have ;)

[Iron Horse]

The asteroid event hits like a truck while you are working on learning the game. I went to sandbox mode, and feel better about it.

I suppose I am going to wait for colonists to be better implemented though.

[Alukat]

Originally posted by Starvexx:

But I now have a neat setup to load the damn cargo truck without the stupid drones for next time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D1xQNo50M something like this?
Tier 3 belts + 14 hauling drones, 1000 silicon in about 53 seconds.

[Xarsus]

I'd love a command to remove the time limit from this quest

[Dark Phantom]

Originally posted by Xarsus:

I'd love a command to remove the time limit from this quest

Would agree that would be nice as well. Have not attempted the story as that laser quest is giving everyone a fit.Playing sandbox for now to learn the game a practice layouts before even trying the story.

[Alukat]

Stage 2:
- 2850 silicon
- 700 titanium plates
- 225 components

Stage 3:
- 1250 compnents
- 128 microcuircuits
- 1480 carbon fiber

stage 4:
- 3000 modular frames
- 250 modular terminals
- 2800 carbon fiber
- 1500 nanotubes

[foxfire]

Originally posted by VladK02:

is the laser event hard-coded to start on a certain date?
or can you delay it for as long as possible by not completing previous storyline stages for as long as possible?

i dont know, im asking because i just got stage 1, saw it needs 4k of each resource, and realized, i wasted a ton of time when i should have been expanding the base constantly :P

Yes, There are multiple "quest lines" that happen at once. The ones that mention Hope2 are the ones to delay, In fact one of the early quests where you send a science rover to send a signal back to hope 2 has no time limit. I've delayed mine with the crew waiting in orbit for my signal for um, 16 years? lol.


I really don't think this quest is possible without colonists speeding up production.

[VladK02]

Originally posted by Alukat:

Stage 2:
- 2850 silicon
- 700 titanium plates
- 225 components

Stage 3:
- 1250 compnents
- 128 microcuircuits
- 1480 carbon fiber

stage 4:
- 3000 modular frames
- 250 modular terminals
- 2800 carbon fiber
- 1500 nanotubes

Oh. Thats not so bad.

Silicon you just buy of the market.
Components you can print with 2 staffed factories no problem
carbon fiber is two-three factories
microcircuits is one factory
modular frames is the big one. You will need like 4 factories for this.
modular terminals is one factory
nanotubes is 2 factories

So, you dont need more then 2-3-4 factories of each kind then, running since beginning of the game.

If colonists staff them, then 2 factories per type of resource is fine.

Doable, very doable.

Good to know.