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Overclocking: Overclocking depends on 2 things tier of the machine and minimum GU/t of the recipe. If a recipe requires 48 GU/t to run this is the minimum energy that you must supply in order to produce the recipe and lets say the recipe costs 1k GU, you can then use a low tier (16-64GU machine) if you supply less than 48GU/t the recipe will not start. If you try to run this same recipe in a machine which has minimum energy input higher than GU/t required by the recipe, then the overclocking penalty kicks in.
The overclocking penalty does 2 things:
- Increases the minimum energy requirement to run the recipe 4 fold per overclocking penalty
- Increases the total energy required to produce the recipe by a factor of 2.
So for the example above a MV tier machine (64-256) will need 192GU/t at minimum to start the recipe that originally required an input of 48GU/t and the cost of the recipe will be 2k GU. This is scaleable so a HV tier machine (256-1024) will require 768GU/t to run the recipe and the recipe will cost 4k GU.
Naturally your MV (64-256) tier machines won’t be overclock penalized for running a recipe that requires 64-256GU/t at minimum to run only machines of tiers higher than the recipe requirement will be overclocked.
You can supply any amount of energy above the threshold value of the recipe to speed up the process, IE. for 16GU/t recipes in a low tier machine (16-64) if you supply 64GU/t it will simply be 4x faster and then of course if you want to go faster than that you get punished, that is if you want to supply 16x the recipe threshold you will only get 8x the speed.
Edit: Machines with the tooltip “Can be overclocked without additional energy loss” means that as long as you’re above the threshold value of the recipe you can supply any amount of additional energy that the machine allows without any overclock penalties applying. E.g. if you supply the large crusher (which has an inherent 50% efficiency) with 4096RU/t it will speed up any 16GU/t recipe by a factor of 128 ((4096/16) * 0.5) as opposed to a factor of 32 in a regular crusher supplied with 4096RU/t (4096/16)*0.5^3) due to 3 overclocking penalties.
Hope this helps.