A New Home Campaign - Outposts.

[King Crimson]

I can only build two depots for outposts so I only have two outposts. Is there a way I can have more outposts?

[JereG]

No, you'll just have to choose wisely where you want them(I recommend the tesla city outpost)

[Darkeng]

Originally posted by JereG:

No, you'll just have to choose wisely where you want them(I recommend the tesla city outpost)

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Tesla city outpost are superior to anything, but then on you that you need more

[Bobywan]

Tesla city for cores will fix all youe problems once you're filled with automaton.
More iron than what you can extract with 2 advanced iron mines is also often required.
For food, you can always build more building especially if you get cores.
Same for coal, if you need more, make more thumpers.
If you lack population, you may have to use food and coal but that's not the optimal choice.

[King Crimson]

Sweet. I figured Tesla City was vital. What would be the best second outpost?

[JereG]

Originally posted by Super Mullet:

Sweet. I figured Tesla City was vital. What would be the best second outpost?

It depends on your situation, but more coal from the mine near winterhome is always welcome.

[amordron]

Originally posted by Super Mullet:

Sweet. I figured Tesla City was vital. What would be the best second outpost?

The steel one. Once you get it’s steel plus either food or coal based on what you need than once you get Tesla city it’s steel and cores.

Reason being steel is a fixed amount resource so you can’t get more outside of getting the outpost past what’s on the map already.

Wood you have more than enough with two wall drill spots

Food and coal you can get as much as you want so long as you got labor and if you have steel and cores you have unlimited labor making it not even a question always steel and cores.

[Bobywan]

Originally posted by Justarams:

Tesla City and Coal Outpost are all you need.

Don't need coal, get iron for more automatons collecting coal :P

[Harbie]

Everyone will have an opinion I guess. I do have to agree with the Tesla output and steel outpost though, steel is way more of a bottleneck compared to many different ways to gather coal. However, part of the game is adapting to your situation so taking careful look at your city production stats is the most important thing.

[dreamerInSilico]

I also agree that Tesla + steel is generally the best combo, because of the hard limit on steel production.

[Dupmeister]

Steam cores and Steel is the way I went. Sadly I didnt think ahead and scrapped the Coal mine outpost for parts. I wish you could set up an outpost for each resource. As the days get progressively colder, I am afraid sooner or later I will not have enough of any resource.

[Bobywan]

Originally posted by dupmeister:

Steam cores and Steel is the way I went. Sadly I didnt think ahead and scrapped the Coal mine outpost for parts. I wish you could set up an outpost for each resource. As the days get progressively colder, I am afraid sooner or later I will not have enough of any resource.

Scrap the coal outpost for parts is fine. You have unlimited coal supply with thumpers, but you have a limited steel supply.
More steel and cores = more automatons working on thumpers and gathering posts.

[Dupmeister]

good point

[Markus Reese]

I too found myself doing tesla and steel. Rush tesla unlocks as fast as possible since each day is another steam core.

[Dupmeister]

my outposts are always freezing cold. I placed Steam hubs right on top of them but it makes no difference. On the heat overlay map the steam hub shows up as a single orange pixlel and the rest of the building is dark and cold.

[amordron]

Originally posted by dupmeister:

my outposts are always freezing cold. I placed Steam hubs right on top of them but it makes no difference. On the heat overlay map the steam hub shows up as a single orange pixlel and the rest of the building is dark and cold.

There is no point to heat outposts no one works there.

Unless the building has a slider to place workers there you have no reason to heat it other than care houses. Other than houses obv.

Outposts the workers are working far from the city the outpost is only a lift they use when returning they don’t stay there.