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I’m at the point that I am scaling up a bigger base so I can shift up to space ex content. I have completed all nauvis research and now require space travel.

I started using beacons but noticed they are not like normal beacons!

Can anyone shed any light on them and how best to use them?

I’m wondering how I scale up properly is all!

Thanks for any help!

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over 3 years ago - /u/V453000 - Direct link

Just don't have more than 1 beacon per machine, that's it.

The biggest benefits to me are:

- you can fit beacons in your starting base, don't need to tear everything down and re-build for beacons

- the beacons eat soo much less power, space exploration also lowers the power consumption of beacons, and you need much less of them

- the space exploration productivity modules decrease the machine speed progressively more with the tier of the productivity module, which gives more incentive to update speed modules, as getting higher productivity does slow down the machine more