Is there a benefit to the later communications parts?

[-Gamah]

The communotron 16 (which we start with) has a throughput of 0.8 which is higher than all of the other parts we unlock down the tree...

What are the advantages of the later parts?

[Landwalker]

Some would say that the later options offer superior transfer speed...

However, they do so at a significantly higher energy cost per Mit of data transferred, and the advantages in speed are pretty nominal. They don't improve the Data-to-Science conversion efficiency, either.

Considering that the frequency with which transfer speed rather than electricity consumption is my limiting factor (i.e. almost never), I've come to the point where I see no reason to use anything other than the Communotron 16. (Except for, of course, aesthetics.)

[-Gamah]

Alright, I'm glad it wasn't just me... Maybe this will be tweaked in a future version.

[Vanamonde]

Parts talk moved to the part of the forum where the parts played by the game's parts are discussed.