Honestly, it’s a waste of time to try and collect every single slug you see. You really only need a few.
IMHO, they’re only really useful for speeding up resource extraction from mines. For everything else, it’s better to just build more machines than to overclock the existing machines. Better to build two machines, rather than overclock one for double production. So the slugs are only useful for machines that you can’t simply build more of, either because there are limited places on the map you can put one (like miners) or because you’ve painted yourself into a corner with your factory design and don’t have room to add more.
I stopped bothering to collect them in my current playthrough when I hit 500 power shards, enough to fill the fully upgraded dimensional depot, which was pretty easy by making the shards in a constructor with a somersloop.
Same way I make alien DNA capsules, though that process quadruples the output instead of just doubling it.
Later, you can make them automatically, so there’s really no point in collecting even as much as I did.
Anyway, extraction is the best place for overclocking, but sometimes it does make it easier to smooth out output without adding several additional machines. Not something to just do everywhere through
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Honestly, it’s a waste of time to try and collect every single slug you see. You really only need a few.
IMHO, they’re only really useful for speeding up resource extraction from mines. For everything else, it’s better to just build more machines than to overclock the existing machines. Better to build two machines, rather than overclock one for double production. So the slugs are only useful for machines that you can’t simply build more of, either because there are limited places on the map you can put one (like miners) or because you’ve painted yourself into a corner with your factory design and don’t have room to add more.
I stopped bothering to collect them in my current playthrough when I hit 500 power shards, enough to fill the fully upgraded dimensional depot, which was pretty easy by making the shards in a constructor with a somersloop.
Same way I make alien DNA capsules, though that process quadruples the output instead of just doubling it.
Later, you can make them automatically, so there’s really no point in collecting even as much as I did.
Anyway, extraction is the best place for overclocking, but sometimes it does make it easier to smooth out output without adding several additional machines. Not something to just do everywhere through