It's not about worrying about enough fuel for the boiler, but not having enough boiler for the load. Imagine you had steam engines on all your machinery - to run them all at once you'd need a massive boiler, but you don't do that, and having such a massive boiler just-in-case results in a load of wasted fuel (more and more the longer this goes on). So you buffer your boiler output, and now you can run those machines for a few minutes without having a ridiculous boiler to do so.
Liquid Tesseracts and Steam
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i`m not talking about constantly running boilers(i just use em
), i`m talking about storing boiler output in form of energy i.e. REC or other energy storages.because steam has very low energy density, and thus it`s better to convert it into energy right away and then store it.
I never build that far above my energy generation ability. On a server, I only build max size boilers and only when I'm ready. By ready I mean I'm about to set up my "real" base, get my AE system going, etc. I also don't get what you mean by steam engines on each machine. I use conduit or something to link machines to one or more energy systems.
But like I said, it's your game
Well, I (up till now) had always done one-engine-per-machine because of conductive-pipe-explosions. But that's not an issue now, so... yea.
We tend to build a 1LP boiler pretty early on and use hobby engines on things. Rather, my friend does - I just go with EU and electric engines for a good while. Because of the unwieldiness required to avoid said pipe-explosions.
We tend to build a 1LP boiler pretty early on and use hobby engines on things. Rather, my friend does - I just go with EU and electric engines for a good while. Because of the unwieldiness required to avoid said pipe-explosions.