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You don't actually have to have identical walls in a factory run.

Dade L. Ess

Master Architect/Artisan - Flurry

Stop right now.

Doing a factory run of fusions is a fine idea.

Just erase that word "similar" (check the FAQ, please).

If you have all of the other stuff (resources, OMUs, generator turbines, etc) and only 5 walls, go ahead and make yourself a schematic (which will eat one set). The next time you have 5 or 10 or 50 walls, load them up in the factory and push the button. That's it.

Walls are walls are walls - the schematics don't wire them in by serial number. They wire everything else, but not the walls.

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Cybst0rm wrote:
So your saying if I did a run of 20 turbines and 10 manufacturing mechanism, I could crank out 10 fusions. Go back later and do a different run of 10 Mechs and 20 Turbines and run another run of 10 fusions from the same schematic?

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No, I didn't say that at all.

Read this very carefully (and btw - I've run off 40-50 fusions in a factory so yes I *know* this).

If you look at the schematic for the fusion, you will see (from memory):

- 5 walls
- steel
- metal
- ore
- chemical
- generator turbines
- manufacturing mechanisms
- small structure storage modules
- ore mining unit


You gather all that stuff up and make a factory schematic. The factory schematic *will* require the following things be *exactly* the same as when you made the schematic:

- steel, metal, ore, chemical (exact same resources)
- generator turbines, manufacturing mechansisms, SSSMs, OMUs (*exact* same serial numbers)

The WALLS will NOT be wired down.

So if you do a factory run of 30 generator turbines, and then trash that schematic so you can't make anymore, the most you'll get is 9 fusions (because 3 turbines are burned making the fusion schematic).


So you DO need to plan ahead and have enough of the other components (or at least keep the schematic AND the resources to make them) on hand to make all the fusions that you'll ever want. What you DON'T have to have on hand initially is all of the *walls* - period.

So your saying if I did a run of 20 turbines and 10 manufacturing mechanism, I could crank out 10 fusions. Go back later and do a different run of 10 Mechs and 20 Turbines and run another run of 10 fusions from the same schematic?

Also, you know this or think? No offence, but this is a big deal with a lot of resources involved. To do 1000 fusions, it takes like 2M ore just in structure modules. Needless to say eveything else.

Opps, HAHAHA, my math is gone. make that 10M ore just in structure modules?