Difference between revisions of "Wastepack atomizer"

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The wastepack atomizer cleanly destroys toxic wastepacks, preventing the spread of pollution.

Acquisition

Wastepack atomizers can be constructed after studying a nano structuring chip, obtained from defeating a Apocriton, and completing the Wastepack atomizer research project. Each requires 200 Steel, 50 Plasteel, 1 Nano structuring chips, 30,000 ticks (8.33 mins) of work, and a Construction skill of 8.

Summary

Wastepack atomizers use 800 W of power. Atomizers hold up to 10 toxic wastepacks, equivalent to two stacks. A single wastepack is destroyed every 30,000 ticks (12 in-game hours) inside a powered atomizer. Pawns only reload the atomizer with full stacks of wastepacks, or once every 2.5 days. Wastepacks do not deteriorate in the atomizer.

Analysis

Atomizers are the primary, consequence-free means of dealing with pollution. Transport pods consume steel and chemfuel. Caravan dumping takes a pawn's time, food, a large carrying capacity, and risks the caravan being ambushed. Empire shuttles are limited by the 40 day cooldown. Dumping wastepacks near faction settlements incurs goodwill penalties, regardless of delivery method.

However, each atomizer a player wishes to build requires defeating an apocriton for its nano structuring chip, which coupled with their very high power consumption, makes building multiple atomizers an expensive proposition. Players will have to decide between using their nano structuring chips for atomizers, advanced Mechanitor gear, or gestating advanced mechanoids.

Sustainability

Toxifier generators

A toxifier generator produces 6 tiles of pollution every 3 days, which is converted into 1 wastepack by a pollution pump. An atomizer can destroy 6 wastepacks in 3 days, and a pump can convert 2 generators of pollution. Therefore, 1 atomizer (-800 W) can support 6 generators (+1400 W) and 3 pumps (-200 W), for a total net power gain of 7400 W.

Mechanoids

Mechanoids will produce wastepacks proportional to their bandwidth every 11.5 days - working for 9.5 days and recharging for 2 days. An atomizer will destroy 23.5 wastepacks in 11.5 days. The table below shows how many mechanoids a single building will support per 11.5 day cycle, assuming 100% work uptime. Mechanoids that are idle or dormant wil produce less waste.

Mechanoids	Bandwidth	Wastepacks Produced per 11.5 day Cycle	Number of Mechanoids Supported by a Single Wastepack Atomizer
Agrihand, Cleansweeper, Fabricor, Militor, Paramedic	1	5	4.6
Lancer, Legionary, Pikeman, Scorcher, Scyther	2	10	2.3
Tesseron, Tunneler	3	15	1.53
Centipede (all)	4	20	1.15
Centurion, Diabolus, War queen	5	25	0.92

By the time most players have finished the 8000 research points Wastepack atomizer project, they are highly likely to already have more mechs producing wastepacks than a single atomizer is capable of processing.

Version history

Biotech DLC Release - introduced.
1.4.3531 - Fix: Pawns won't haul wastepacks to an atomizer unless there's 10 wastepacks on the map.

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 == Summary ==
-Wastepack atomizers use 800 W of [[power]]. Atomizers hold up to 10 wastepacks, equivalent to two stacks. A single wastepack is destroyed every {{ticks/gametime|30000}} inside a powered atomizer. Pawns only reload the Atomizer with full stacks of Wastepacks, or once every 2.5 days. Wastepacks do not deteriorate in the atomizer.
+Wastepack atomizers use 800 W of [[power]]. Atomizers hold up to 10 [[toxic wastepack]]s, equivalent to two stacks. A single wastepack is destroyed every {{ticks/gametime|30000}} inside a powered atomizer. Pawns only reload the atomizer with full stacks of wastepacks, or once every 2.5 days. Wastepacks do not deteriorate in the atomizer.
 == Analysis ==