Crude oil energy-to-matter converter???

[Hoochfox]

Is it just me, or is the power draw of the crude oil extractor just a teensy excessive? A full accumulator's worth of electricity can extract an entire 2 units of oil... maybe? Hey, no prob man, I'll just breed a half dozen nocturnal orzerks. Or, I dunno... make a bucket?

[Zepheros]

The real question is why HAVEN'T you bred Orzerks with work suitability passive skills? When that content first released, it was a real slog to extract oil because it wouldn't continue to extract offline if you didn't have electric Pals strong enough to keep up with the demand. Once I started investing in Pals with higher work suitability for electricity and passive skills to further buff it, it started accumulating offline. Then I slapped a pair of Orzerks on large generator and the demand for two extractors was easily met while they ran off to do other tasks. I've now got a max level Orzerk with lvl 5 electricity that could probably power four extractors by himself if there was a location for that many on the map.

[Hoochfox]

Originally posted by Zepheros:

The real question is why HAVEN'T you bred Orzerks with work suitability passive skills?

Three-base limit, and a lot of irons in the fire. I'm not saying that it can't be done; it just seems like a weird way to balance the late game loop, especially when it's next to impossible to cover all your high-demand materials using semi-automated bases.

[mister_lobos]

well, having only 3 bases would probably make a big difference.. BUT.
research at the research station makes electricity generation more efficient, makes oil extractors more efficient at producing oil, , and even makes everything use less electricity.
you can get oil from multiple pals, oil rigs, and people...
even without all that my previous game, before the 4.14 update was producing more oil then i needed off just two oil extractors.

granted getting started is a bit slow yes... but certainly doable.

[Hoochfox]

Originally posted by mister_lobos:

well, having only 3 bases would probably make a big difference.. BUT.
research at the research station makes electricity generation more efficient, makes oil extractors more efficient at producing oil, , and even makes everything use less electricity.

Admittedly, research has not been a high priority for me thus far.

[FSHerrante]

You can supply power to the position of 3 deposits in the coastal area of ​​the volcano with:

3 large energy towers
4 Energy accumulators
1 Electric tower acquired through research

You need to progress in the PAL lab's power generation research to ensure an acceptable supply of power.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3434346264

Hunt Helzephyr Lux in Sakuragima island to provide energy. Im using 5 and have excedent.

[Neitsuke]

Back then it was a lot worse than it is now but still easily doable with two Orsek with good traits. You should be doing just fine with two Orsek with Artisan, 30% soul buff, pylon, alpha wave machine and food work speed buff

[Luminous]

On the south west side of the volcano there's a spot with three oil spots. You can have two oil extractors on each node. I have six in one base

[Hoochfox]

Originally posted by Luminous:

On the south west side of the volcano there's a spot with three oil spots. You can have two oil extractors on each node. I have six in one base

There's a spot on the southern desert plateau where your base can encompass some forest, two or three coal nodes and two oil nodes, with a skill fruit tree just outside. Six extractors it ain't, but when real estate is at a premium it works pretty well for me. Maybe less critical with constructable mining pits, I guess.

[rwd_1980]

Originally posted by Hoochfox:

Is it just me, or is the power draw of the crude oil extractor just a teensy excessive? A full accumulator's worth of electricity can extract an entire 2 units of oil... maybe? Hey, no prob man, I'll just breed a half dozen nocturnal orzerks. Or, I dunno... make a bucket?

I use 4 star Helzypher Lux to power my Large Power Generators.

[Zepheros]

Originally posted by Hoochfox:

Originally posted by Luminous:

On the south west side of the volcano there's a spot with three oil spots. You can have two oil extractors on each node. I have six in one base

There's a spot on the southern desert plateau where your base can encompass some forest, two or three coal nodes and two oil nodes, with a skill fruit tree just outside. Six extractors it ain't, but when real estate is at a premium it works pretty well for me. Maybe less critical with constructable mining pits, I guess.

Six??? Damn, I never considered trying to double stack them, lol.

[teckkev]

Don't feel bad, I just started oil too. I had a horrible fail using the 2x Electric Horses with Vamperic/Artistic. It took 12 to keep 1 going at a positive until the poor horses broke. I have an overkill setup now, but it looks like a real power plant, lol. Why not drain from the batteries before the generators? All generators directly charges the batteries, but generators can't help charge another generator that may be struggling or absent of Pal. Just my 1/2 cent input :)