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 The resources are used proportionally to how much is collected per second (regardless of how much of each resource is stored), and to energy values of the resources.
-E.g.: Assume a giant with base yield of 1.0 Fire Ice/s and 0.5 Hydrogen/s and base Mining speed (100%) giving Gathering speed = x8. The actual resource yield can be calculated as follows:
+Since the consumption values are dependent only on fuel types and the ratio of their base production (since they scale equally with VU), for a given Giant the absolute loss of resources per Collector is constant. As a result, with low Mining speeds giants with low base production rate will lose most of the production as upkeep. In such cases, researching first couple of levels of [[Veins_Utilization_(Upgrade)| Veins Utilization]] is crucial in making the Collectors profitable at all.
+E.g.: Assume a giant with base yield of 0.5 Fire Ice/s and 0.25 Hydrogen/s and base Mining speed (100%) giving Gathering speed = x8, and later upgraded to VU Lvl 5, i.e. Mining speed 150% (giving Gathering speed = 8 * 1.5 = 12x). The raw (before consumption) and real (after consumption) resource yields can be calculated as follows:
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-! Gas Giant base rate !! Power values of resources !! Total of power values || Fraction of total power !! Orbital Collector consumption !! Base rate * Gathering Speed !! Actual resources produced
+! Gas Giant base !! Power values of resources !! Total of power values || Fraction of total power !! Orbital Collector consumption !! Raw prod. with MS 100% !! Real prod. with MS 100% !! Raw prod. with MS 150% !! Real prod. with MS 150%
 |-
-| 1.0 Fire Ice/s
+| 0.5 '''F'''ire '''I'''ce/s
-| 4.8 MJ/Fire Ice * 1.0 Fire Ice/s = '''4.8 MW'''
+| 4.8 MJ/FI * 0.5 FI/s = '''2.4 MW'''
-| rowspan="2"| 4.8 MW + 4.5 MW = '''9.3 MW'''
+| rowspan="2"| 2.4 MW + 2.25 MW = '''4.65 MW'''
-| 4.8 MW / 9.3 MW = '''~0.52'''
+| 2.4 MW / 4.65 MW = '''~0.52'''
-| 30 MW * 0.52 / 4.8 MJ/Fire Ice = 3.25 Fire Ice/s
+| 30 MW * 0.52 / 4.8 MJ/FI = 3.25 FI/s
-| 1.0 Fire Ice/s * 8 = 8 Fire Ice/s
+| 0.5 FI/s * (8 * 1) = 4 FI/s
-| 8 - 3.25 = 4.75 [Fire Ice/s]
+| 4 FI/s - 3.25 FI/s = '''0.75 FI/s'''
+| 0.5 FI/s * (8 * 1.5) = 6 FI/s
+| 6 FI/s - 3.25 FI/s = '''2.75 FI/s'''
 |-
-| 0.5 Hydrogen/s
+| 0.25 '''H'''ydrogen/s
-| 9 MJ/Hydrogen * 0.5 Hydrogen/s = '''4.5 MW'''
+| 9 MJ/H * 0.25 H/s = '''2.25 MW'''
-| 4.5 MW / 9.3 MW = '''~0.48'''
+| 2.25 MW / 4.65 MW = '''~0.48'''
-| 30 MW * 0.48 / 9 MJ/Hydrogen = 1.6 Hydrogen/s
+| 30 MW * 0.48 / 9 MJ/H = 1.6 H/s
-| 0.5 Hydrogen/s * 8 = 4 Hydrogen/s
+| 0.25 H/s * (8 * 1) = 2 H/s
-| 4 - 1.6 = 2.4 [Hydrogen/s]
+| 2 H/s - 1.6 H/s = '''0.4 H/s'''
+| 0.25 H/s * (8 * 1.5) = 3 H/s
+| 3 H/s - 1.6 H/s = '''1.4 H/s'''
 |}
-Since the consumption values are dependent only on fuel types and the ratio of their base production (since they scale equally with VU), for a given Giant the absolute loss of resources per Collector is constant. Similarly, a Collector on a Giant with 0.5 FI/s & 0.25 H/s with MS 100% would get only 0.75 FI/s & 0.4 H/s (compare that with the values above). As a result, with low Mining speeds giants with low base production rate will lose most of the production as upkeep. In such cases, researching first couple of levels of [[Veins_Utilization_(Upgrade)| Veins Utilization]] is crucial in making the Collectors profitable at all.
+As a result, increasing Mining speed from 100% to 150% (VU from 0 to 5) has increased both FI and H production by about '''3.5 times''' (about +250% instead of +50% effect it had on miners etc.). In this case, even two first levels of VU (giving only +20% to most mining machines) basically doubled the Collector's output (this calculation is left to the curious reader). This effect gets much less pronounced on higher VUs or on Giants with high base rates, though.
 ==Production Chain==