Some advice

[Psychosoldier9]

Well as it stands as of right now, my cells stand at this:
3341/52000
up: -72 down 1062

Any advice on this, My crystal is at 5300 and up by 1067 every day.

so obviesly im not managing my stores correctly. so any advice on what to use this stuff on would be great.

P.S. NOT A NOOB QUESTION I SWEAR!

 

[Sgt. McAwesome]

Upgrade your Power Plants so that it's above the minus range. If you leave it at minus, you'll only be wasting energy.

What levels are your power plants at now?

 

[Psychosoldier9]

They're at lvls 7,7 and 8

 

[Sgt. McAwesome]

Try to raise them each by one. If they ever go low, keep raising your plants so your increase and decrease is at a reasonable margin.

I have 896 increase and a 2136 decrease. My power plants are 11, 11, 12, and 12. (I have more power plants at my starting city).

 

[Stick]

indeed my main power plants are at 14, 14, 14, 15 with a lvl 6 power coil

 

[raptor217]

haha stick that's crazy!

But don't forget, farming can increase your resource levels and give you more of a buffer when you have negative power consumption.

 

[Winters (MechHero)]

Yep, good point raptor - the more mechs you have in a city, the more you can raid other peoples cells to support a larger negative cell consumption.

What I'd recommend is raising up your level of Cell Storage and trying to build a reserve or stockpile of cells. It's an awful lot easier to manage your cells when you know you have a weeks supply. It is also handy if you need a lot of defensive mechs stationed at your city. Bigger cell storage means it is easier to accommodate all of the cells required.

I have well in excess of 200k cells stored in all my major cities, and my main city has a cell capacity of over 500k. My net production is around -500 or so per hour in my main mech cities which means my stockpiles last for about 400 hours.