Super Coolant Breaker! End game spoiler alert

[bhughes]

For the rift machine 5000 coolant units takes 50 super coolant plants @ 100 burning 2 titanium per second. I didn't realize those things burned up my titanium supply. My titanium deposits are just about depleted. I only found 2 deposits on the volcano biome.

I guess I should have calculated how many coolant plants I would need, place them down without hooking up the final pipe. Instead I started adding more and more coolant plants checking the overall number # against 5000 as I went thinking wow this is gonna take a lot of coolant plants, all the while not knowing that titanium was disappearing just because the pipe was hooked up. I suppose it would be nice if devs made the rift machine not actually use the coolant until it was doing what it's supposed to do!

I know it's just a game but how in the world of chemistry could a machine use raw titanium over and over to make it cold? Oh well.

So for this play through I think I'm stuck without a win. Unless I can located more titanium don't think I can finish. I ran around quite a bit and didn't find anymore deposits but I haven't checked every corner of the map yet.

That many coolant plants take up a ton of space and I haven't even began to address how to do the plasma yet. Having us place the rift machine at the beginning of the game seems like a waste, "it's gonna take up a lot of space" yeah, you think!

Having to snake the coolant pipe throughout my existing base hoping to add enough plants isn't fun, I should probably move the rift machine at one edge of the base that doesn't have much rock around and expand the base outward from there to fit the necessary things, but how could I have known that at the beginning?

When I was finally ready to actually work with the rift machine, add some coolant and plasma no big deal right? Fire that baby up and win! Only to figure out the actual requirements plus to find my titanium is now gone kind of took the wind from my sails, er turbines.

Oh and hailstorms are bad, really bad, make them go away or give me a base a regen tech that I can discover that will slowly heal entire base. My base is huge and now needs to become even huger and I get attacked all the time too.

[GreatSphynx]

Outside of starting over, the best thing you could probably do is set up a bunch of cultivators at all your outposts harvesting things that yield titanium until you have a big enough stockpile. But yeah that sucks, I realized pretty early on not to hook up anything to the rift gate when I saw it constantly draining water for no reason.

[Jeslis]

You dont need 5000 per second, you just need 5000 stored. Build some liquid storage.

[bhughes]

It'd be nice if we could learn to remove big trees and rocks to help with needing more space.

[bhughes]

Originally posted by Jeslis:

You dont need 5000 per second, you just need 5000 stored. Build some liquid storage.

Oh damn, I didn't even think of that! Gah, ok, new plan.

[Moviematrix101]

Big trees can be harvested by harvesters or obliterated by big guns. Rocks are immortal, unfortunately

[Avengernaut]

Uh, by "rift machine" you mean the "Rift Station" and its upkeep costs.... you only need 2 supercoolant plants and 3 if you want excess... the Rift Station only has 50/sec upkeep for coolant...

[Shibe]

Or just use water? Much much easier and sustainable.
Fusion reactor for plasma already needs water too.