Robot + Bio-Reactor

[Nordgeez]

Just gonna be brief, can I build a Bio-Reactor while my species is a robot, or does it screw me over when I run out of food?

[Nightmyre]

Hm. That's an interesting question. The penalty for being out of food is -25% organic pop happiness and -75% pop growth speed.

I would assume that the -75% pop growth speed would apply to assembling robots as well; if it doesn't, it seems like a rather silly oversight, since it means you can effectively just build as many bio-reactors as you want, and not care about the fact that you're going into the negative in food.

[Doom Squid]

It just stops making energy credits and uses its upkeep sucking away at your food-pool until you bring it up back into the positive, so make sure you make +30 (at the least) food I'd say before building one and keep researching +% food buffs.

[corisai]

Pop growth is for living and pop assembly is for robots. So lack of food shouldn't affect you.

Synths (after ascension) are whole another strory, dunno.

[Nordgeez]

Originally posted by Doom Squid:

It just stops making energy credits and uses its upkeep sucking away at your food-pool until you bring it up back into the positive, so make sure you make +30 (at the least) food I'd say before building one and keep researching +% food buffs.

So when I run out of food, it just stops producing energy?


Um, now that I think about it, that's a logical solution. Thanks for the help! :)