#too slow lava smelters

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proud granite
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i now have 150 lava smelter II producing firmalite sheets but it is only enough for rocket fuel and 2 bot/drones that uses 1 sheet to produce so this is 7 sheets for 1 of each.
and yet 9 sheets needed for 1 of each for the rest that is left would be 200 extra lava smelters but i was building scale able and thus this would mean over 1000 lava smelters for sure with the whole labyrinth coming with that
can't we just get upgraded speeds on those smelters or also use the blast furnace and casting system or arc furnace and casting as it did before (so different recipe's) to create firmalite sheets

also glass and steel need to get a production upgrade
the above is my point of view when crafting all on planet and not buy everything on market
because market is broken you can just get a few million of firmalite and then buy ore produce higher value things sell
this is what most do these days not mining any stuff or getting resources anymore perhaps re-scale market trades and make production upgrade able

next mantle
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You need 4 plate per minute for a heavy transport bot per T1 assembler (that's 240 bots\h).
A single Smelter II produces 20 sheets/m. A single smelter serves 5 assemblers.
Fuel is 60 plates per minute for 12 fuel per minute (720 units of fuel per real hour). Certainly more expensive per unit, but I'm using 312 units of fuel per hour (real hour? I seem to be using around 8 units per minute) to sell over 2K of different drones in the same amount of time. And I'm doing alright with ~400 sheets per minute (no idea how much is consumed).

I agree that smelters are too slow (given their limitations) and need at least double the speed, but needing 1000 smelters? 150 smelter is already 3000 sheets per minute, what are you going to use 20000 sheets per minute for? At that scale needing a lot is expected.

proud granite
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I only produce my own fuel for 500 spaceships and sell around 28k of 5 types of drones on daily basis and still like said before need to add a lot of drones/bots that will need firmalite sheets and doing a bit of math made me scared, I mean firmalite is not the problem I net earn 20m a day the problem is transfer to sheets to scale up like 4x the production