Too much Automated Wiring

[JasonS]

I don't understand why this one part is so far out of wack with everything else in the space elevator milestones? Compared to the other space elevator parts 60,000 of these just looks like a typo.

Adaptive Control Units costing 15 Automated Wiring each is the main issue. I really think it shouldn't be this much.

Please re-balance the space elevator parts to cost more of the other parts and less Automated Wiring. I don't even think that the milestones are too much its just very unbalanced having so much of one thing.

[XLjedi]

It seems to be one of those things that the skyhook likes to eat. There seem to be more than a few parts that are built in a production run for awhile and then get shelved.

Those items might be good targets for creating a small-ish workshop factory for limited runs that can easily be reconfigured to produce any singular one-off product.

I kinda like the disproportionate challenge that it might present. ...maybe forces you to add some flexibility to at least a portion of your layout for the less frequent parts?

[Vectorspace]

The devs have said that Space Elevator Phase 4 is a placeholder, and will likely be re-balanced by the time of v1.0.

That said, I didn't find it that difficult to complete. I have a storage array for most parts fed by belt and train from remote factories. I tapped the feeds into that to a new space elevator parts factory I built nearby, and left it for a while while I worked on other things. It took a bit of time to build and I needed a new dedicated copper factory for all the copper powder, but on the whole it probably took less time than my biggest factory (which makes turbo motors, RC units, AI limiters and EM control rods).

[Wolfgang]

Automated Wiring is just Stators and Cable to make. Both of which you should have automated already.
With an alt recipe (if you unlocked High Speed Connectors) you can get more efficient.
https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Automated_Wiring#Crafting
Besides you only need 60.000 of them for the WHOLE space elevator thing. Just keep the production running.

And while yes, the adaptive controll units need 15 of them per crafting you only need to supply 7.5/min of them to make the machine run at 100%.

It actually is only something which means that you should scale up your production because the last space elevator phase will be way more demanding.
4000 Assembly director systems (0.75/min), 4000 Magnetic field generators (1/min), 500 Nuclear pasta (0.5/min) and 500 Thermal propulsion rockets (1/min)

[JasonS]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Automated Wiring is just Stators and Cable to make. Both of which you should have automated already.
With an alt recipe (if you unlocked High Speed Connectors) you can get more efficient.
https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Automated_Wiring#Crafting
Besides you only need 60.000 of them for the WHOLE space elevator thing. Just keep the production running.

And while yes, the adaptive controll units need 15 of them per crafting you only need to supply 7.5/min of them to make the machine run at 100%.

It actually is only something which means that you should scale up your production because the last space elevator phase will be way more demanding.
4000 Assembly director systems (0.75/min), 4000 Magnetic field generators (1/min), 500 Nuclear pasta (0.5/min) and 500 Thermal propulsion rockets (1/min)

Sure you could stockpile the stuff for ages while you're playing the rest of the game but its still way out of balance with the rest of the parts.

As an example to build enough Versatile Frameworks (13,000) in 8 hours you'd need to run about 27 frameworks per minute, which is about 6 Assemblers and around 1100 iron per minute.

In order to do the same for with Automated Wiring you'd need 480 Assemblers and 28,800 Copper per minute. The wiring factory would be nearly 100 times bigger.

[kLuns]

Use overflow to be made into automated wiring, look for efficient recipes (hard drives) and try some blueprinting.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by JasonS:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Automated Wiring is just Stators and Cable to make. Both of which you should have automated already.
With an alt recipe (if you unlocked High Speed Connectors) you can get more efficient.
https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Automated_Wiring#Crafting
Besides you only need 60.000 of them for the WHOLE space elevator thing. Just keep the production running.

And while yes, the adaptive controll units need 15 of them per crafting you only need to supply 7.5/min of them to make the machine run at 100%.

It actually is only something which means that you should scale up your production because the last space elevator phase will be way more demanding.
4000 Assembly director systems (0.75/min), 4000 Magnetic field generators (1/min), 500 Nuclear pasta (0.5/min) and 500 Thermal propulsion rockets (1/min)

Sure you could stockpile the stuff for ages while you're playing the rest of the game but its still way out of balance with the rest of the parts.

As an example to build enough Versatile Frameworks (13,000) in 8 hours you'd need to run about 27 frameworks per minute, which is about 6 Assemblers and around 1100 iron per minute.

In order to do the same for with Automated Wiring you'd need 480 Assemblers and 28,800 Copper per minute. The wiring factory would be nearly 100 times bigger.

Or you just have 7.5/min being produced all the time as soon as you unlocked it. Worked for me perfectly.