Planet Export/Import

[The Fish Whisperer]

What materials / things do you usually export / import from each unique planet?

[Zukabazuka]

Have 2 ships transporting 1700 barrels of water to Fulgora and ITS NOT ENOUGH. System eat it up before the ship leaves.

[cswiger]

You really want to export and use the big drill and Foundry from Volcanus first.
Even the science packs from each planet are less important than these are.

Fulgara gives you tesla weapons, recyclers, and more junk than anyone needs. But it's a good place to scrounge up blue circuits and upgrade your personal armor and gear, especially in conjunction with the final tier of improved quality modules.
(Be sure to take a Foundry here and use it for making Holmium plate.)

Gleba. Ehh. I'm still learning how to make this work well, although I've gotten the basics going enough to make some green science without a biological disaster. Are your science labs back on Nauvis spoilage-ready? Save this for last of the starting three, IMO.

[[82AD] Incoming !!!]

Originally posted by Zukabazuka:

Have 2 ships transporting 1700 barrels of water to Fulgora and ITS NOT ENOUGH. System eat it up before the ship leaves.

Water - Do less cracking. You get solid fuel, plastic, and batteries from recycling, if you need more recycle more. The only cracking you should have to do is for light oil to turn the solid fuel into rocket fuel and make superconductors.

[Boothy]

Originally posted by Zukabazuka:

Have 2 ships transporting 1700 barrels of water to Fulgora and ITS NOT ENOUGH. System eat it up before the ship leaves.

Why are you shipping water to Fulgora? You have tons of water (via Ice) already there, shouldn't be any need to ship water in!

[Hurkyl]

Originally posted by Boothy:

Originally posted by Zukabazuka:

Have 2 ships transporting 1700 barrels of water to Fulgora and ITS NOT ENOUGH. System eat it up before the ship leaves.

Why are you shipping water to Fulgora? You have tons of water (via Ice) already there, shouldn't be any need to ship water in!

IIRC, it's nowhere near enough to burn off the tons of solid fuel you get with boilers, if you're trying to do that.

[slothrop]

Originally posted by Hurkyl:

Originally posted by Boothy:

Why are you shipping water to Fulgora? You have tons of water (via Ice) already there, shouldn't be any need to ship water in!

IIRC, it's nowhere near enough to burn off the tons of solid fuel you get with boilers, if you're trying to do that.

Why would you try to do that though? You get batteries for accumulators for free.

[Boothy]

Originally posted by Hurkyl:

Originally posted by Boothy:

Why are you shipping water to Fulgora? You have tons of water (via Ice) already there, shouldn't be any need to ship water in!

IIRC, it's nowhere near enough to burn off the tons of solid fuel you get with boilers.

Perhaps I'm missing some context, as I'm only part way through the tech tree, but can't you just scrap the excess solid fuel?

I save everything useful, but I overflow any excess into recyclers, and it's gone.

[Ishimuro]

heck dont import water, get a platform to collect ice at orbit (or let it do a short route to collect it) and drop it to the planet

otherwise, i use gleba for plastic (beside the unique stuff like chamber/carbon/stack) and platform construction, as i just can generate everything out of "nothing"
fulgora beside the unique for fuel/rocketfuel
vulcanus for stone related stuff and raw materials as generating stuff out of lava is also nice
aquilo just for the unique stuff, but i produce quantums at a platform, find that easier than working with that heat stuff and i just need to dump them where needed
...nauvis...yeah after aquilo only the eggs for gleba are left together with prod modules and some uranium ore :)

[Hurkyl]

Originally posted by slothrop:

Originally posted by Hurkyl:

IIRC, it's nowhere near enough to burn off the tons of solid fuel you get with boilers, if you're trying to do that.

Why would you try to do that though? You get batteries for accumulators for free.

I don't know why they did it. I did it because it gets rid of my ice and my solid fuel without contributing to demand for my Recycler line. And it smooths out occasional power loss during daylight hours.

(I'm not sure if I was just lazy about accumulators or if I was going super hard on module production)

[Zukabazuka]

Originally posted by Ishimuro:

heck dont import water, get a platform to collect ice at orbit (or let it do a short route to collect it) and drop it to the planet

otherwise, i use gleba for plastic (beside the unique stuff like chamber/carbon/stack) and platform construction, as i just can generate everything out of "nothing"
fulgora beside the unique for fuel/rocketfuel
vulcanus for stone related stuff and raw materials as generating stuff out of lava is also nice
aquilo just for the unique stuff, but i produce quantums at a platform, find that easier than working with that heat stuff and i just need to dump them where needed
...nauvis...yeah after aquilo only the eggs for gleba are left together with prod modules and some uranium ore :)

Tried that, the amount of Ice is just not enough in orbit around Fulgora. Second, I want more than just 500 science in a hour so I need more water. The recycler is not giving enough batteries and water for the system I have, So I need sulfur to build more batteries. Which require water in one of the recipes. Yes I am using productivity in all of the builds.
Not really using it to power some steam turbines, I have over 14k or more substations for power. Those also need batteries for the science.
I also need more of the Holmium ore too, it is just not enough for the system.

So in the end my system on Fulgora demands a lot and the recycler isn't giving enough, even though it is on 100-150% productivity. Would build a bigger space but need foundation and that recipe is really just stupid in terms of cost. So the main problem is really getting to fully use all the items without the system backing up. The recycling stations and storage just take up so much space and then you need extra recyclers for the junk you don't need

[End of history]

I have only just reached Fulgora myself, and I am not at the scale you are, but I agree with what others have said that making accumulators is really easy on Fulgora and that should get you by just fine. Once you can land fill you can make endless accumulator farms that just feed off the lightning. I don't really see the need to use the solid fuel for anything other than rocket fuel, but I may be missing something.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by End of history:

I have only just reached Fulgora myself, and I am not at the scale you are, but I agree with what others have said that making accumulators is really easy on Fulgora and that should get you by just fine. Once you can land fill you can make endless accumulator farms that just feed off the lightning. I don't really see the need to use the solid fuel for anything other than rocket fuel, but I may be missing something.

Same - boilers are fine to start with because they are cheaper to make per power and you already have the fuel and ice to get rid of.

But it's really easy to make accumulators on planet and coat the place with them

Just aim for quality - uncommon accumulators are TWICE as good as common.

[Zukabazuka]

Well didn't really focus on quality for accumulators due to them not being able to be used in recipes unless all pieces where uncommon. Also looked at the amount I had put down. 25,000 of them. So about 9 islands full of accumulators.

So system did have batteries but pretty sure my system will drain them soon when I turned off production for it. Water is still needed for light oil and Holmium solution.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Zukabazuka:

Well didn't really focus on quality for accumulators due to them not being able to be used in recipes unless all pieces where uncommon. Also looked at the amount I had put down. 25,000 of them. So about 9 islands full of accumulators.

So system did have batteries but pretty sure my system will drain them soon when I turned off production for it. Water is still needed for light oil and Holmium solution.

Make quality ones and just sort the quality ones to use and shove the rest into science packs

[Ishimuro]

at the scale you are, you dont have fusion? at some point i just stopped building accumulators at every island and used fusion for power (yes before i imported quality accumulators from other planets)
to the water import, well dont let your platform just sit and collect, let it move? ammo shouldnt be a issue and the asteroid count during moving is quite high to gather stuff, just let it fly to gleba and return, drop the ice and go again, works quite well for me, if you need even more, try the route to aquilo