Machine Tools Do Not Increase "Efficiency"

[unmerged(20077)]

What they actually do is just increase IC, with the corresponding increase in demand for resources. This is not "efficiency" - calling it that is misleading (and has just caused me quit, reload and cancel a project that was 90% finished ). v. 1.02, by the way.

 

[mld0806]

What they actually do is just increase IC, with the corresponding increase in demand for resources. This is not "efficiency" - calling it that is misleading (and has just caused me quit, reload and cancel a project that was 90% finished ). v. 1.02, by the way.

It is "efficiency" in that one base IC point is producing MORE actual IC points. It in now way lowers how much steel goes into a tanks or how much rubber goes into an aircraft. That's not efficiency, that's redesign.

 

[Atruejedi]

What they actually do is just increase IC, with the corresponding increase in demand for resources. This is not "efficiency" - calling it that is misleading (and has just caused me quit, reload and cancel a project that was 90% finished ). v. 1.02, by the way.

You cancelled a great tech that was 90% done? Wow. :rofl:

 

[unmerged(11633)]

They also increase the amount of resources extracted by 5% each time.

 

[unmerged(20077)]

You cancelled a great tech that was 90% done? Wow. :rofl:

I had no choice. I had no way of acquiring the extra resources I would have needed.

 

[Arilou]

I had no choice. I had no way of acquiring the extra resources I would have needed.

As pointed out, resource production also increases by the same amount.

 

[unmerged(20077)]

But if you're relying on trade for most of your resources, there's still going to be a big shortfall.

 

[mld0806]

But if you're relying on trade for most of your resources, there's still going to be a big shortfall.

And hence the historical reason for conquest. That's WHY you fight wars. You don't fight wars because you have the resources to.

 

[The Albatross]

Version 1.3 -- Coding Changes.....

I had no choice. I had no way of acquiring the extra resources I would have needed.

Before you scrap your project -- talk to some of the other modders, and also wait for version 1.3.
Other forum posters have raised the issue of increasing resources not just through conquest, but through increases in mineral exploration, mining efficiencies, inventing new industrial processes etc.
In other words there may be some coding changes afoot that may enable your project to get off the gorund.

Cheers