Hydrogen Storage

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The Hydrogen Storage tank allows you to keep larger amounts of hydrogen on a planet. When the amount of hydrogen on a planet exceeds your storage capacity, your synthesizer will no longer produce hydrogen. By upgrading the Hydrogen Storage tank, you can keep your mines producing even longer.

Note: There is no limit to how much of a specific resource you can have on a planet, but once the storage capacity of the appropriate Warehouse is exceeded, no more resources are produced by the mine of that resource. This is the major reason for increasing the storage space. Note that anything sitting on a planet is an open invitation to raiding, and this includes amounts in storage. Further amounts of the resource may be deposited in the planetary coffers by raiding, trading, and transport, and amounts sent off as part of a FRS/harvest are not considered "in warehouse" or on-planet. The solitary other benefit to increased warehouse size is when using the trade merchant. The maximum "incoming" resource is limited by the maximum warehouse capacity for that resource (including anything on-hand). Hence, if you have a level 8 warehouse capable of holding 2,200,000 resources, and 200,000 of that resource are on hand, then the most the trade merchant will allow you to trade "for" is an additional 2,000,000 of that resource. You can trade "from" any amount of resources you have on hand, regardless of warehouse capacities.

Costs and Capacities

The cost for storage tanks doubles with each level.

The formula for capacity is as follows:

Capacity = 50,000 * (RoundUp(1.6Level)+1)

Table

Level Ore Cost Crystal Cost Capacity Difference
Start N/A N/A 100,000 N/A
1 2,000 2,000 150,000 50,000
2 4,000 4,000 200,000 50,000
3 8,000 8,000 300,000 100,000
4 16,000 16,000 400,000 100,000
5 32,000 32,000 600,000 200,000
6 64,000 64,000 900,000 300,000
7 128,000 128,000 1,400,000 500,000
8 256,000 256,000 2,200,000 800,000
9 512,000 512,000 3,500,000 1,300,000
10 1,024,000 1,024,000 5,500,000 2,000,000
11 2,048,000 2,048,000 8,850,000 3,350,000
12 4,096,000 4,096,000 14,150,000 5,300,000
13 8,192,000 8,192,000 22,600,000 8,450,000
14 16,384,000 16,384,000 36,100,000 13,500,000
15 32,768,000 32,768,000 57,700,000 21,600,000
16 65,536,000 65,536,000 92,300,000 34,600,000
17 131,072,000 131,072,000 147,650,000 55,350,000
18 262,144,000 262,144,000 236,200,000 88,550,000
19 524,288,000 524,288,000 377,850,000 141,650,000
20 1,048,576,000 1,048,576,000 604,550,000 226,700,000
21 2,097,152,000 2,097,152,000 967,200,000 362,650,000
22 4,194,304,000 4,194,304,000 1,547,500,000 580,300,000
23 8,388,608,000 8,388,608,000 2,475,950,000 928,450,000
24 16,777,216,000 16,777,216,000 3,961,500,000 1,485,550,000
25 33,554,432,000 33,554,432,000 6,338,350,000 2,376,850,000
26 67,108,864,000 67,108,864,000 10,141,300,000 3,802,950,000
27 134,217,728,000 134,217,728,000 16,226,000,000 6,084,700,000
28 268,435,456,000 268,435,456,000 25,961,550,000 9,735,550,000
29 536,870,912,000 536,870,912,000 41,538,450,000 15,576,900,000
30 1,073,741,824,000 1,073,741,824,000 66,461,450,000 24,923,000,000
31 2,147,483,648,000 2,147,483,648,000 106,338,300,000 39,876,850,000
32 4,294,967,296,000 4,294,967,296,000 170,141,250,000 63,802,950,000
33 8,589,934,592,000 8,589,934,592,000 272,225,950,000 102,084,700,000
34 17,179,869,184,000 17,179,869,184,000 435,561,500,000 163,335,550,000
35 34,359,738,368,000 34,359,738,368,000 696,898,350,000 261,336,850,000
36 68,719,476,736,000 68,719,476,736,000 1,115,037,350,000 418,139,000,000
37 137,438,953,472,000 137,438,953,472,000 1,784,059,700,000 669,022,350,000
38 274,877,906,944,000 274,877,906,944,000 2,854,495,450,000 1,070,435,750,000
39 549,755,813,888,000 549,755,813,888,000 4,567,192,700,000 1,712,697,250,000
40 1,099,511,627,776,000 1,099,511,627,776,000 7,307,508,250,000 2,740,315,550,000
41 2,199,023,255,552,000 2,199,023,255,552,000 11,692,013,150,000 4,384,504,900,000
42 4,398,046,511,104,000 4,398,046,511,104,000 18,707,221,050,000 7,015,207,900,000
43 8,796,093,022,208,000 8,796,093,022,208,000 29,931,553,600,000 11,224,332,550,000
44 17,592,186,044,416,000 17,592,186,044,416,000 47,890,485,750,000 17,958,932,150,000
45 35,184,372,088,832,000 35,184,372,088,832,000 76,624,777,100,000 28,734,291,350,000
46 70,368,744,177,664,000 70,368,744,177,664,000 122,599,643,350,000 45,974,866,250,000
47 140,737,488,355,328,000 140,737,488,355,328,000 196,159,429,300,000 73,559,785,950,000
48 281,474,976,710,656,000 281,474,976,710,656,000 313,855,086,850,000 117,695,657,550,000
49 562,949,953,421,312,000 562,949,953,421,312,000 502,168,138,900,000 188,313,052,050,000
50 1,125,899,906,842,620,000 1,125,899,906,842,620,000 803,469,022,200,000 301,300,883,300,000

There is no maximum level of storage tanks. Capacities and costs increase as per the formula above. Note that, while storage capacity grows exponentially (~60% per level), the cost of expending your warehouse doubles (100% per level); cost of expansion exceeds the increase in size at level 11, and exceeds overall capacity at level 15. This could still be worthwhile if you were doing merchant conversions a lot, which might be possible with hydrogen.

See Also