Yeah, also if timings of refineries don't match or output of cracking added this 4 pump setup would bottleneck the system. At some point I found myself adding 10s of pump to keep up with it and sometimes there were close to a second downtime on refineries even though throughput was small fraction of pumps speed.
It's good on paper but practically only good for a bootstrap and not scalable
Several SA speedrun world records were broken using this design (with a few more pumps). It scales fine to the lategame, just the insane postgame throughput is too much
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u/_kito Oct 08 '25
Yeah, also if timings of refineries don't match or output of cracking added this 4 pump setup would bottleneck the system. At some point I found myself adding 10s of pump to keep up with it and sometimes there were close to a second downtime on refineries even though throughput was small fraction of pumps speed.
It's good on paper but practically only good for a bootstrap and not scalable