Vulcanus and Plastic

[Geomancer]

Do I have this correct that it take 4 coal liquefaction refiners to supply a single plastic chemical plant? Or is there something new here on volcanus that I missed that isn't so insane for plastic?

My goodness that's going to be a metric ton of refineries just to get red circuit production for the big miners. Almost thinking of importing instead of producing...

[slothrop]

Yes per second but 4 refineries is really cheap? And you don't need red circuits or plastic at all to produce the science packs on the planet, and the miners only require 10 each. You barely need much to get enough blue circuits and LDS to launch a rocket. and then you can research advanced coal liquefaction which has better ratios.

[Geomancer]

If it was just 4, fine, but I was thinking more along the lines of things needing them not taking forever. The ratio isn't even, but something around 14 or so refineries are needed then to supply just a single foundry making big miners (let alone anything else).

Was just curious if there was something I was missing, but from what I can find just seems like it's the way it is unless you begin importing (at which point, you'd just import the circuits directly).

[slothrop]

You're not going to keep production of big miners going constantly though until later when you are ready to just export to other planets. Even then, Its just a mall item. After that you can scale easier, especially when you get EM plants for chips and the better coal liquefaction.