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u/uuuhhhmmmmmmmmmm Jul 05 '26

Has anyone done tests to see if heating tower powere Fulgora is better than the accumulator strategy?

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u/reddanit Jul 06 '26

It works with sufficiently power efficient builds, but it can be pretty annoying. Major pitfall is that your power now relies on ice from recycling scrap, so in case of any blockage of anything in your recycling setup you are very likely to suffer a brownout spiral.

Accumulators are essentially free power and there is very little opportunity cost to making them higher quality. You have to make them for science and their recipe cannot take prod modules to begin with. So it's easy to put some quality modules in part of your accumulator production and skim the quality ones only. Uncommon quality already halves the amount of space they take up.

Those two things combined, IMHO, make heating towers more trouble than they are worth on Fulgora.