Oswalius
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Post by Oswalius on Sept 19, 2013 12:24:31 GMT
This guide provides a step-by-step process for maximizing research levels in Research & Development with only the starting materials and no outside help.
- Load up the machines with materials. 20 glass and 50u sulfuric acid in the circuit imprinter, 20 metal and 10 glass in the Protolathe, and the rest in the autolathe is the suggested load-up.
- Go over to the autolathe and construct metal rods and a scalpel. Using the metal rods a welder from one of the toolboxes on the south table, build a flamethrower. While you are still at the south table, grab an analyzer from one of the toolboxes and both power cells by the charger. Deconstruct all items you have gathered so far (those being a flamethrower, analyzer, scalpal, and two high-capacity power cells)
- Build following items from the protolathe: micro-manipulator, engineering meson goggles, tracking beacon, super-capacity powercell. Place the powercell on the charger and deconstruct the rest of the items.
- Build and deconstruct an Operating Computer circuit board, followed a circuit board for any Cloning machinery.
- To be continued...
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Post by tuiee on Oct 4, 2013 4:28:52 GMT
I'm just gonna hijack this thread and post the research path that Duck and I use.
Start with two power cells, tracking beacon, analyzer from the toolbox, the toolbox itself, a manipulator on the table to the right. Fabricate meson scanners, destroy those. Mining drill, high-powered micro laser, advanced matter bin. Go to the research station, grab a bruise pack or burn pack and 90 units of acid. Deconstruct bruise pack, switch to circuit-printer. Print a PANDEMIC, cloning machine console, subspace receiver, three gygax/durand gun chips, and then a subspace broadcaster. And you're about as far as you'll get without mining support.
You can squeeze in a few more levels here and there but you won't be able to build anything you research, so there's not much point in going further. After you get stuff from mining, you decon either a uranium or a diamond and make a diamond drill, then deconstruct that. Then two ansibles and a subspace transmitter and you can make bluespace backpacks.
In addition, this path can be brought to the max if your RD takes a trip to telecomms and picks up a few spare parts to decon back in R&D. Anything you retrieve from telecomms can be replaced if you feel guilty and/or get threatened with demotion by the captain.
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Oswalius
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Post by Oswalius on Oct 5, 2013 0:35:47 GMT
But this thread is about maximizing research levels with just what you have in your lab, and almost all your steps require you to leave the lab
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Post by tuiee on Oct 5, 2013 5:33:50 GMT
Everything in my path can be found in the lab or on the research station, and you can't maximize your research if you don't at least pick up some sulphuric acid. Might as well get it from the research station and grab a bruise pack while you're at it.
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