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Booster Reaction Question
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Captain Sunflower
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-06-11 11:09:01 UTC
You know how a booster requires something to react with it to make the next thing? For example; water, garbage, or acid. To do the reaction, they are stored in a general storage silo. I get that no problem. What I'm wondering is, in the reaction output of this secondary resource, can you link it back to the silo holding the secondary resource input? Or do you need another silo to export it to?
Bridgette d'Iberville
Better Killing Through Chemistry
#2 - 2014-06-11 13:52:27 UTC
Captain Sunflower wrote:
[Y]ou need another silo


I am pretty sure you can't recursively link it back. With that said, I've never tried it with something like a Coupling Array.

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#3 - 2014-06-11 14:32:47 UTC
Confirming you need a silo or coupling array. No loops are allowed.

This is also covered on page 19 of ATAP's Guide to Booster Production v1.2.
Bridgette d'Iberville
Better Killing Through Chemistry
#4 - 2014-06-11 14:46:39 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Confirming you need a silo or coupling array. No loops are allowed..

@Tau: Do you know if you can link the coupling array to the input silo? I've never tried that before. I know you can't link the output product to the input silo, but wasn't sure if the intermediate coupling array could solve that...

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Tau Cabalander
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Working Stiffs
#5 - 2014-06-11 15:33:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Bridgette d'Iberville wrote:
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Confirming you need a silo or coupling array. No loops are allowed..

@Tau: Do you know if you can link the coupling array to the input silo? I've never tried that before. I know you can't link the output product to the input silo, but wasn't sure if the intermediate coupling array could solve that...

You can't create any loops. Everything has to be a linear progression from a starting-point to an ending-point.

Not allowed: A → B → A
Not allowed: A → B → C → A
Not allowed: A → B → C → B

Allowed: A → B → C
Allowed: A → B → Coupling Array → Silo1 → Silo2 → SiloN
Soldarius
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#6 - 2014-06-11 20:02:38 UTC
Confirmed, no loops allowed. But you can link the output to a GS that links to another reactor because the reaction only consumes 5/100 of the commodity required. Just make sure to have some more in each linking silo when you start, and that the final silo is not linked back in a loop.

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