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Or maybe it just takes an absurdly long time.

This. I've had 8+ hour rounds. If you pay attention the time it spends in stage 2 vs. stage 3 gets progressively longer as time goes on. Eventually it stops going back up to stage 3, and starts occasionally cycling to stage 1.


*dangerous secrets of the trade removed*


Actually nevermind, just keep doing it your way.

the second stage of growth is 3x3, the third 5x5, the fourth is ... i don't even know. You can maintain a stable singularity between the second and third stage, so 5x5 inner, 7x7 outer would be the smallest recommended field.

There isn't, to my knowledge, a 2x2 stage (even though the wiki talks like there is).

Maybe if you kept them tightly enclosed in a space only just big enough for them.

Pretty sure that's a recipe for disaster.

So what do you wire the radiation collectors to? The input of a SMS? And then what does the SMS go to? How is the main power network off the SMS isolated from the room power from the APC's? I couldn't find any separation when I looked, but I was rather busy trying to keep the station together...

You mean currently or in his (soon-to-not-be-)mini-singularity? In the latter I think he just wired the collectors directly to the emitter-field loop, the accelerator, and the power main.

For the station itself, last I checked, the APC is wired to the SMES, the SMES have six different wires leading off of them, some of which are output (possibly just the one going under the northward wall), but most are input/output, either from the collectors or the solars. The two pairs of emitters on either side are powered by different wires.

This arrangement is relatively new, and possibly the reason our field keeps failing, as the emitters no longer get power directly from the APC, so the emitters fail when the SMES they are linked to does. [If power can move through deactivated SMES, then I am wrong. But it doesn't seem to.]

Can you add extra collectors for added power generation?(Not that it's really necessary).

Yes. And he did. The power generated wasn't very great, initially, and by the time the singularity was large enough to generate significant power, the collectors were gone. You could probably put collectors along the sides of the singularity chamber once it has started. Since there's already a grill there it should be easy to remove... er, well, "easy" (they're reinforced), to remove the walls and install them.

Also, are you supposed to be able to fill plasma tanks to 1013kpa? Or is that an oversight?

All tanks can be filled to 1013 kpa. But remember this is pressure, not volume, so an emergency oxygen tank at 1013 kpa is only holding a fraction of what a full sized oxygen tank at 1013 kpa can hold.



Now for my query. Is it possible to build a *new* SMES?

Unplugging them still works... but yes, you did establish that the field doesn't destroy the emitters. That might one day be useful.

I start at 12 and go counter clockwise, then just jump past the last emitter in between shots. 11 won't activate until you switch on 10 or 12, will it?

It seems both of the servers are down. What's going on?

It was restarting perhaps? Urist McStation is up.

I know it's late for a lot of you, but the main Urist McStation server has just been restarted and the power should be stable enough for whatever stories you choose to craft to unfold. I, however, am going to bed.