Is Rocket Fuel Over Powered?

[Conr McKocoa]

Converting Turbo Fuel to Rocket Fuel effectively triples energy output.

This isn't necessarily bad. Endgame overclocked and slooped buildings demand more power with large fluctuations. So more power potential in needed in the game. A lot of generators must be built though-- potentially hours of building generators.
But I must build all the generators because my fuel system is dependent on full oil consumption.

Example:
I produce 2400 turbo fuel. It burns at 7.5/min in 320 gas generators; 80,000 MW

40 blenders morphs 2400 turbo fuel into 4000 rocket fuel.

4000 rocket fuel burns at 4.167/min in 960 gas generators; 240,000 MW

All I am saying is I'm tired of building 640 more gas generators.

[bykov.vl.an]

nuclear power plants are better for energy.
such a number of generators should motivate the transition to nuclear energy.
extra fuel can be used for plastic and rubber through alternative recipes.
rocket fuel is very good for drones

[ColdFish]

So?
You are also using 2000 units/min of sulfur and coal each + nitrogen in the process.

I really don't understand why people are so hung up on rocket fuel.
It's really not a huge step up from either turbo or regular fuel, when it comes to net-power generated (power generated minus the power used by all of the production buildings required to produce the fuel).

Example: If you produce fuel to run 100 fuel generators (so 25GW in total), the net-power of each fuel type is:
Fuel: 22,75GW
Turbo Fuel: 23,1GW
Rocket Fuel: 24,49GW
Ionized Fuel: 13,48GW
(to be fair, those numbers exclude the oil pumps though)

So yes, you get a bit more efficiency, but you are also burning coal+sulfur (and additionally nitrogen for rocket fuel). Resources that have other uses.

The only thing you really save on is oil. But who cares about oil, really?
Both the Golden Coast and the Spire Coast have enough oil deposits to fully exploit for fuel power, except if you want to utilize the majority of the world resources to produce tickets or somehow need huge amounts of oil, but no sulfur and/or coal.

[NocheLuz]

Originally posted by ColdFish:

The only thing you really save on is oil. But who cares about oil, really?
Both the Golden Coast and the Spire Coast have enough oil deposits to fully exploit for fuel power, except if you want to utilize the majority of the world resources to produce tickets or somehow need huge amounts of oil, but no sulfur and/or coal.

I think saving Oil is a must. Since, unlike any other resources. You cannot convert anything to Oil. But you can convert other resources into Sulfur, Coal, and Nitrogen Gas. You also need Oil products to do anything else.

However, if you don't use Oil that much. I think just using Diluted Fuel is great for power.

[vivan]

Originally posted by Conr McCombs:

All I am saying is I'm tired of building 640 more gas generators.

Overclock them.

[kLuns]

My production line of rocket fuel is stalling because it takes too long to build the 400 overclocked generators. Also because I didn't build any generators in advance and just turned on the factory so everything fills up.
Rocket fuel is a gas so you don't have fluid dynamics :)

Sulfur and coal used to be rare in update 8 but they added way to much of that stuff for it to be rare.

1800 oil, less than 1200 sulfur, 1680 nitrogen and 210 iron ore providing 254GW at the cost of a 20GW production line is pretty overpowered.

Originally posted by bykov.vl.an:

nuclear power plants are better for energy.
such a number of generators should motivate the transition to nuclear energy.
extra fuel can be used for plastic and rubber through alternative recipes.
rocket fuel is very good for drones

You got plutonium fuel rods, why are your drones on rocket fuel?
Uranium is the complex production line, fuel power is the tedious insane amount of generators.