Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.41.104.183-20130911230448/@comment-3075738-20130915100501

Here: The maths behind this.

This is a scenario where a legit player has a quarter stack of HV Solar Arrays, and a full nuclear reactor running at 2048EU/t and is using 8 Recyclers.

(16 HV Arrays is still more than I see most legit players having on a small server)

512(16) = 8192

8192 + 2048 = 10240

Recyclers at 10 Overclockers each use 130.8EU per cycle.

130.8(8) = 1046.4

Gross EU Mass Fabricator: 10240 - 1046.4 = 9193.6 EU/t. (Remember this value)

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10^6 / 9193.6 = 108.771319179 Ticks per Fabrication.

108.771319179 / 20 = 5.43856595893 Seconds per Fabrication.

It takes 9 UU Matter to create 1 Diamond.

9(5.43856595893) = 48.9470936304 Seconds per Diamond.

However the key question.

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Efficient?

Diamond = 8192

Using common Lava Cells.

Lava Cell = 128 EMC.

8192 / 128 = 64

20(64) = 1280 EU regenerated.

9193.6 - 1280 = 7913.6 (Loss of 86.1%; Extremely inefficient)



Using the EMC to create more Uranium Cells for the Reactor.

Uranium = 4096 EMC

Cell = 64 per Item

4096 + 64 = 4160 per Uranium Cell

Can generate upwards of millions of EU, however extremely slowly; deeming it inefficient.

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Generally, anything that uses Mass Fabricator as a mass producer for everything except Iridium is a very bad idea. Even the way it's built screams inefficiency; the game mechanics of the Mass Fabricator wants everything it creates have less value than what you put it. If it didn't, it would be a massive loophole and be self-sustaining.

I was tired and felt like using my TI-89Titan so yeah if you were wondering why I did this.