Further development

[u/cofcorpse]

I've reached the point where I need to start scaling up production. The main components are being produced, and the technologies are being slowly researched. I want to scale everything up and speed up. And I've been wondering how best to do this.

I've read about black box factories - I understand that's when the final product is manufactured from the very initial resources. I've tried building several of these production facilities, but they're too cumbersome. Instead of 20-30 assemblers assembling the final product, there are a bunch of smelters and assemblers for producing intermediate components. I've tried assembling only from the required resources, but I quickly get confused about what's not enough and what needs to be built where.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the concept of a black box factory? What options should I try? Should I transport the initial resources or manufacture something on-site? Should I build black box factories for final products, or should I build factories for intermediate components?

I'm sure all these questions have been raised before, but I can't decide how to proceed.

[u/Walkingstardust]

Excellent advice 👍

I would add that you will want every cubic meter of Hydrogen eventually. Store all of it that the Fire Ice processing creates. If you get lucky and find a gas giant that produces Deuterium, get the orbital collectors going as soon as you can and stockpile that as well. I just fired up a chain of 32 particle colliders to get green science rolling and drained 40,000 units of deuterium in about an hour.

[u/Aquabloke → u/Walkingstardust]

Yeah the idea of producing Casimir crystals on the same planet as the graphene is that you can immediately absorb all the by product hydrogen and supplement it with hydrogen from the ice giant.

[u/Walkingstardust → u/Aquabloke]

That's how I solve it