how to get more power on tours?

[Chief Smackahoe]

whats the best way to replenish my power on a tour? Also, what is the point of harvesting trees? It cost 6 power and it gives 6 power???

[Llyes]

3 lumber, and 40 materials. In other words 100 power. Huge wrecks also have a net gain in terms of materials/power. However, power is still a time consuming thing to replenish unless you get the 30% extra materials on harvest bonus, which is far from guaranteed. The hundred odd ore you can pick up on larger maps is also not insignificant

[ExavierMacbeth]

Material Conversion generally gives most of the extra power
- Tower can do 300 materials to 30 energy
- Each Small Generator you have can do 150 into 15 energy

Unless you get the "Quick Gathering" Card only Huge & Large Wreaks give any net power gain when harvested for power (5 for huge, 2 for large) but can be tedious.

Small & Large trees become profitable if you have a Power Converter module that lets you convert the wood you get into additional power. This can also be used on Ore & junk items you want to get rid of.

Finding Batteries, Power Cable Plug, or Playing Basketball minigame also gives you power (make sure you have space for it when you sue these)

Otherwise you just expand you XField (Higher Core Power or attach Titan Spikes to your base & close them) to let the base autoharvest more things very slowly for free... then convert that into energy.

It gets easier to manage as you get farther in the game & start with larger stockpiles (or kill more enemies to get lots of material to convert)

[Mazzle Dazzle]

Bring fuel. No one recommends this and you can buy it cheap and harvest everything for free from a power perspective for massive power profit. If you harvest wood, you can also sell the wood after for a profit after or use it to make supply boxes which you can then use for way more deployables.

[HeathenSW]

Originally posted by Mazzle Dazzle:

Bring fuel. No one recommends this and you can buy it cheap and harvest everything for free from a power perspective for massive power profit. If you harvest wood, you can also sell the wood after for a profit after or use it to make supply boxes which you can then use for way more deployables.

I second that. Fuel is dirt cheap in the shop, but it speeds harvesting wrecks/trees by A LOT and you can convert produce nicely.

Also you should have energy converter - you'll get by data cables item, stacks up to five. They convert to energy really good - a full stack will give you 88 if I'm not mistaken.

[sintri]

With each stack of that 30% buff this changes by alot, but:
25 power wrecks are net positive without buffs, 300 materials = net gain of 5 power.
6 power trees are net positive without buffs, 30 materials + 3 lumber = net gain of 3 power.
10 power vans are net neutral without buffs, 100 materials = no gain/loss.
3 power trees are a loss without buffs, forget the material but they only drop 1 lumber.

But always manually run those rail station type maps, they're cheap to visit, guarantee 1 50 power battery bank on it, and typically also can have least 1 if not multiple campaign buff terminals.

[Serpent]

Originally posted by Llyes:

3 lumber, and 40 materials. In other words 100 power. Huge wrecks also have a net gain in terms of materials/power. However, power is still a time consuming thing to replenish unless you get the 30% extra materials on harvest bonus, which is far from guaranteed. The hundred odd ore you can pick up on larger maps is also not insignificant

this sum every thing up. lumber method is kinda annoying but it work.
if you play on snow prepare for ruin lab map. this map you have over 25 huge wreck to salvage. if you have even one 30% more material you can max out both material and power cap.

[Chief Smackahoe]

also, is there a point to opening car doors? Never found anything inside any of them

[Kalil]

Originally posted by Chief Smackahoe:

also, is there a point to opening car doors? Never found anything inside any of them

Sometimes there's something inside.

[Caxapok]

technically you can destroy stuff manually(wrecks and trees have hp) and collect materials without energy consumption...but you need dmg

[Strickove]

BTW, when you convert Lumber to Energy using the Material Converter, it is NOT 2 Energy per piece, but 2.x Energy per piece. Converting the 3 Lumber from one tree only gives you 6 Energy, yes, however if you convert a full stack of 15 Lumber, you get 37 Energy rather than 30. So harvesting Lumber by itself is a net profit in Energy gain, let alone the bonus 40 (+any bonus material cards you have) Material.

Material can be converted into Energy using a Generator at a ratio of 150:15 (10:1)

Huge Wrecks give default 300 Material at the cost of 25 Energy. Using the M:E conversion ratio, this is gaining 30 Energy for 25 Energy (1.2x invested Energy)

Whereas Trees cost 6 Energy each, give default 40 Material and 3 Lumber. Harvesting 5 trees (to cap the stack of Lumber before conversion) will total a sum of 200 Material and 15 Lumber, which is effectively 20+37=57 Energy at the cost of 30 Energy. (1.9x Energy invested)

So in short, if you are low on Energy, fight the Lorax. Huge wrecks are wicked less efficient in gaining Energy than harvesting trees.

[Strickove]

If you're curious as to when Huge Wrecks become more efficient than trees due to bonus material gathering buffs, it's once you get FIVE of those +30% gathering buffs.

0 buffs:
30:25 WRECK (1.2x)
57:30 TREE (1.9x)

1 buff:
39:25 WRECK (1.56x)
63:30 TREE (2.1x)

2 buffs:
48:25 (1.92x)
69:30 TREE (2.3x)

3 buffs:
57:25 WRECK (2.28x)
75:30 TREE (2.5x)

4 buffs:
66:25 WRECK (2.64x)
81:30 TREE (2.7x)

5 buffs:
75:25 WRECK (3x)
87:30 TREE (2.9x)

[dgresevfan]

When you get far enough and you get the rocket launcher turret, it actually reloads with 300 materials. Which gets you 15 shots. Each one of those shots can blow up one or more vehicle wrecks, and you get the materials...

[Vigilante]

Bring along your old gear you will never use or low tiered gear and chuck it in the recycler 1k material for a yellow helmet I won’t ever wear as it’s not a +5