Gas drilling rig

[EchoMan]

Speeds up digging for gas.

500g per day without fuel, maybe 1500g fueled?

[wadko]

It would by nice to have one od those.

[Sunni Daez]

Agreed

[Comy]

This is not a +1 post, but it has the sentiment of one!

However, considering the way other machines work, shouldn't it be the tooled rate without fuel and four times that with fuel?

[EchoMan]

Probably. I have no idea. I just fired from the hip on this one.

[Joshuamonkey]

I think Comy's right. Being able to get gas so quickly would be nice, but is it okay to give gas another advantage considering how good it is compared to coal already? It shouldn't effect trade that much (though it might for some), so I guess it'd be okay either way.

[EchoMan]

Well, coal you can use as fuel directly, whereas gas has to be refined into propane at a rate of 150 grams per day.

[Doug R.]

Yes, the refinement is the rate-limiting step. Honestly, all my characters that have to use gas (because that's all they have) have no problem getting gas in surplus, it's turning it to propane that's the issue. A drill will just make our gas pile bigger.

[Snickie]

I do support this rig because we have gas but nobody to dig it, and we have plenty of coal to refine it with, and WE NEED VEHICLE FUEL, DANGIT. -pantpant- Whoa.... Okay, anyway.


Thought: Would it be considered a bit pointless to use propane on the gas drilling rig?

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[Joshuamonkey]

Thought: Would it be considered a bit pointless to use propane on the gas drilling rig?

Not really. Fuel is fuel. *shrugs*

Yes, the refinement is the rate-limiting step. Honestly, all my characters that have to use gas (because that's all they have) have no problem getting gas in surplus, it's turning it to propane that's the issue. A drill will just make our gas pile bigger.

That's a good point. That seems to apply with my character that's at a town with gas also.

[EchoMan]

Well, if you dig the gas faster, you can spend more time at the purifier or build another one to have more people produce propane, right?

Not all locations have tons of resources already in storage.

[Joshuamonkey]

Well, if you dig the gas faster, you can spend more time at the purifier or build another one to have more people produce propane, right?

It seems like the hard part is getting people to work inside..including my own characters.

[EchoMan]

So how does this differ from any other machine (oil derrick, bauxite drill) that needs its produce to be refined indoors (distillation stack, alumina refiner)?

[Doug R.]

I think the point is that it's no different, so we can dispense with objections based on it giving gas more of an advantage over other fuel types.

[Joshuamonkey]

Well, coal you can use as fuel directly, whereas gas has to be refined into propane at a rate of 150 grams per day.

Yes, the refinement is the rate-limiting step. Honestly, all my characters that have to use gas (because that's all they have) have no problem getting gas in surplus, it's turning it to propane that's the issue. A drill will just make our gas pile bigger.

Actually, I thought both of you meant that having to refine it makes it less convenient. It certainly doesn't make it less efficient for refining and smelting.
Using a pickaxe for hematite, a coal drill, a limestone quarry, using coal to refine the gas, and a sledgehammer, going purely by days of work, with coal for the refining and smelting you'd get 113.9694 grams of iron per day of work or 129.0751 g of steel per day of work. With propane you'd get 124.408 g of iron per day or 146.375 g of steel per day. This is the advantage I'm referring to. This calculation doesn't include using fuel for the coal drill, but obviously that just gives coal more of a disadvantage. Also, once you've got the propane made (and if you already have stockpiles of limestone and hematite), propane is more convenient to use because the actual time you have to spend on a smelting furnace is much less.