Chemical production

[nicht123]

How do you guys handle the need of chemicals? One plastics factory needs 20 chemical producers and to fully supply one car factory alone needs ~10 of them. To build 10 or 20 of a facility seems much but still okay, but the necessity of >200 chemical plants for one end producer sounds damn high

[archiver213]

you can do it with alot less, just takes more time. few vids on youtube showing some using 4 chemical plants, 1 plastics plant & then of course the car factory.. Which all need to be researched thru the university.. so yes a complex process.. Orbital Potato has a video just on the process he's using.. I'm sure there alot more but its one i just watched the other day..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNdfGQbyTNk&list=PLVfEIe0Zbcpf_SDCS_ArGVpPKK0tqC8kn&index=51&t=1s

[nicht123]

Originally posted by archiver213:

you can do it with alot less, just takes more time. few vids on youtube showing some using 4 chemical plants, 1 plastics plant & then of course the car factory.. Which all need to be researched thru the university.. so yes a complex process.. Orbital Potato has a video just on the process he's using.. I'm sure there alot more but its one i just watched the other day..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNdfGQbyTNk&list=PLVfEIe0Zbcpf_SDCS_ArGVpPKK0tqC8kn&index=51&t=1s

Of course all can be done with a lot less for the price of efficiency. It just drives me nuts when I want to optimize a setup. It doesn't matter if the industrial complex needed will be big, but keep in mind other plastics consumer e.g. electric devices also shall be built. It seems somehow strange to me that i might have to turn half of the map into chemical facilities to support all these needs ending up in maybe one single end consumer facility each (car factory, electronic devices).
If the chemical facility qould not be that big...not to mention the complex outside in and inside out connections making it impossible to properly stack them

[tea_bush]

But do you really need that many cars and electronic devices?

[forzion]

Yeah, IMO you do not need to operate a plastic factory at full capacity to produce enough plastics.

[nicht123]

Right, you do not need to max out factory production capacity to get something out of the chain in the end, but it will stress the hell out of me knowing factories standing still 90% of their time due to lack of supplier factories

[tea_bush]

Reduce the amount of workers working there. Then they won't stand still.

[cdog]

Not the best screenshot, but at the lower right you can see I have 10 chemical plants. This has proven adequate for 4 fabric factories, plastic plant and electronics. As others have said, you don't need the plastic at full capacity, and if you want to export I'm fairly certain chemicals are better value.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1722331517


Because the inputs are such low volume you can use trucks to deliver. I factory import logs because I'm too lazy to replant forests, everything else is home produced (crops, gravel and oil)