ACID OR OIL?

[Cron]

i hear a lot of people saying OIL is more important of a farm to have, but others prioritize Acid farms... which one is more valuable??
and what is acid primarily used for crafting other than ammo

[Dark Savior]

Oil because acid can be easily farm from enemies and passive looting.
Acid is used for smelting high level ore for end game gear and building.

I had a spot where I farmed both but decided to switch over for oil only.
Need those oil for biomissle for PW.

[Puskai]

Acid

[EvilHare]

Barreled Premium Fuel is what you need for bio missiles. Not oil. It can be farmed several ways just like acid. And just like acid, it is easier to farm it than produce it.

[Lollipop33]

Acid, fuel is easily obtainable with refinery permits.. I dont understand why ppl waste so much time and memetics on refining and being stuck in a oil field, not making acid for basically everything

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Lollipop33:

Acid, fuel is easily obtainable with refinery permits.. I dont understand why ppl waste so much time and memetics on refining and being stuck in a oil field, not making acid for basically everything

DO not need the permits.

I never did anything that relates to the permits. I am easily able to get all of that with routine farming.

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by Lollipop33:

Acid, fuel is easily obtainable with refinery permits.. I dont understand why ppl waste so much time and memetics on refining and being stuck in a oil field, not making acid for basically everything

Preserved deviated chops and a run through Blackfell nets me 300-500 acid in 15-20 minutes.
Oil I don't refine to premium. I refine it only to mixed and use that to refine stardust ore into more stardust source for end game ammos and what not.
Premium I get from refinery passes. Even the lowest ones give a decent amount for the effort.

[Kiteo Hatto]

I tried both passive farms, oil is more annoying to get because you can't make use of anomalous gens in most cases(unless you are one of the few people who grabbed a plot of land in oilfields). Also, i feel like fuel is slower.

That said, i can just buy a lot of acid for cheap from players(or make myself from sulfur chemist) and refinery permits get me a lot of premium fuel. The passive income of both is pathetic, unless you really dedicate your entire base's power generation to 1 thing.

The one currency im always short on is stardust source. Constant gear recalibration and bio/red plasma missiles, especially red plasma. I just run silos to get more.

Live where you like, don't be a slave to resources.

[OrangeBoxCat]

Acid use in many thing and fast making than oil
i'm never have a problem about oil or premium oil just loot from abandon car that it

[Vile]

Basically depends on what memetic specializations you have. Both are good but I think if you have the Art of Stardust Decay DarkEternal's method is the one I'd shoot for. The passive farming in this game is woefully inadequate unless you dedicate all power to it like Kiteo says and produce large quantities. Everything can be farmed or purchased/traded so it really doesn't matter either way. Being in or on the outskirts of a corrupted zone (acid farm) means you can use the Deviation Energy Generators which give you the best power output too. Finding a spot that does both means you can switch between both as needed but there aren't many places on the map where this is possible (as far as I know?).

[LostME]

Originally posted by OrangeBoxCat:

Acid use in many thing and fast making than oil
i'm never have a problem about oil or premium oil just loot from abandon car that it

Premium fuel from cars? What a funny joke. Looks like you are one of the useless players who don't bring rockets to prime wars.

[Wanderlust]

Both are indispensable and there's no reason to limit yourself to one or the other. With a couple of Specialization Cleaners (or you could use Memetic Tokens), you can acquire the ability to generate both passively. I hate farming car trunks or acid mobs, so I have a passive acid farm in a polluted zone that yields about 1000 acid a day via 20 pumps, 2 filters and 4 barrels, running off of 6 deviant generators with eels. My wife has an oil farm using Super Refineries which will take as input both acid and crude oil so we can produce as much mixed or premium as we need, plus as much acid and stardust source as we need.

Yes, this is relatively slow compared to manual farming, (did I mention I hate farming acid mobs or cars) but it's passive and runs in the background (with one small exception, I have to manually move impure acid from the storage tank to the brewing barrels every so often because for some reason the barrels don't yet have pipe intakes), so I can be running legendary content all day long while generating all these materials in the background. I like that trade off.

[allocesninja]

i run a acid farm with 2 super refineries. my acid becomes oil if i need and if i dont i still have acid

[Wanderlust]

Originally posted by allocesninja:

i run a acid farm with 2 super refineries. my acid becomes oil if i need and if i dont i still have acid

Exactly. There must be 50 ways to generate both without farming. I don't see any reason to limit yourself to one or the other.

[allocesninja]

Originally posted by Wanderlust:

Originally posted by allocesninja:

i run a acid farm with 2 super refineries. my acid becomes oil if i need and if i dont i still have acid

Exactly. There must be 50 ways to generate both without farming. I don't see any reason to limit yourself to one or the other.

yep set ups need to reflect what you are doing and what you want to do its all play styles

[✯скуф+подпивас✯]

Originally posted by Cron:

i hear a lot of people saying OIL is more important of a farm to have, but others prioritize Acid farms... which one is more valuable??
and what is acid primarily used for crafting other than ammo

I extract both oil and acid at the same time, I don’t see a problem at all)