Is it worth it to use beacons on labs?

[Seven ate you]

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[Huperspace]

only for research speed

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by Huperspace:

only for research speed

Not necessarily. You can save a ton of resources with productivity modules.

It takes some creative belt routing, but I remember seeing a very interesting design by Nilaus that had each lab filled with productivity modules and surrounded by beacons with speed modules. He went through the rationale as he was building it in one of his YouTube play series. I think it was the one about 0.17.

[piccolo255]

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

Originally posted by Huperspace:

only for research speed

Not necessarily. You can save a ton of resources with productivity modules.

Sure, but question was about "beacons on labs", and beacons don't accept productivity modules :)

[Kutsuu Mugen]

I would say yes, I use around 30 Labs (MK2 with 4 Mod slots due to Bob's Mods) and all the Beacons in the middle.
So Labs have Productivity Modules and Beacons use the Speed Modules.

Very nice things to have assuming you got enough production to supply it.

[THE kilroy]

Adding beacons to labs will onky increase research speed if you can keep up with production of sciencepacks. Its just the equivalent of adding more labs. I do it in the way late game, but it certainly isnt needed.

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by THE kilroy:

Adding beacons to labs will onky increase research speed if you can keep up with production of sciencepacks. Its just the equivalent of adding more labs. I do it in the way late game, but it certainly isnt needed.

This is very true.

Since early on I am production strapped I typically build a low-volume Science line add Productivity modules of the highest level I have available as soon as I get them to the labs and science production assemblers that are choking from lack of resources.

I don't worry about science volume until I have enough smelting and circuit production, at which point I build a large scale beacon optimized complex for science and rockets.

[Purpleganja]

It takes less space than science labs if they boost more than 2 labs.
If they boost 8 labs for 50% speed, they are 4 labs for the space of one and much cheaper because it's worth 8 prod modules for the price of 2 speed modules.