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This is for those that are having a problem harvesting enough Crystalline.

So.
In order to get crystalline faster first you need to plan ahead and not use it immediately for the micro mines.
The fastest way to get it is to continuously build regolith furnaces near crystalline deposits.

We all know however that you only have a limited amount (very big on a mega world but still limited).
The trick is in the Synthetic crystalline.

The synthetic deposits actually do spread albeit slow (I sadly can't tell you the time it takes though). The best way to farm it is to build the deposit in a place where the rovers can't reach (preferably the corner of the map or in a square completely surrounded with walls).
Then you just need patience.

If you build about 5-9 initially, after about 30 min. you will notice a big change. The deposits actually slowly create new ones overtime.

So if you wait long enough you will have a never ending supply of crystalline.

I hope I helped someone with this :-)

That's true, so its best if you surround the area you want for crystal farming with walls or roads.

Or like me - get over 200 tundra rovers ;p

Basically we farm tiberium now

You can make nice self-replenishing crystalline "farms"...
Layout like this.
R R R R R R R R R
R F C C W C C F R
R C C W C W C C R
R C W C C C W C R
R W C C C C C W R
R C W C C C W C R
R C C W C W C C R
R F C C W C C F R
R R R R R R R R R
where:
F = Regolith Furnace
C = Crystalinne
W = Wall
R = Road

The harvesters can freely get to the outside ones by the furnaces and some of the inside ones diagonally, but not all, your "seed" in the center will be safe.
They might sometimes glitch to inside the wall but if you go off screen a bit they'll come out again(without cleaning out your "seed"). Layout a few of theses for the harvesters to move between and crystalline won't be an issue anymore.

So far, I have just found a remote corner of the map away from where I currently harvest crystal, and plant the synthetic ones.

I just keep planting it until I get a sizeable field and then I leave it to grow, maybe start a second as a backup, and then make a road/wall around it so it doesn't spread too far.

It's worked so far.

The way I see it is you need to maximise your potential growth space. If you build a 2x2 area (4 crystals), the potential growth area is the perimeter of the 2x2 as internal space is wasted. It only has potential to grow into 12 spaces. If you place these 4 crystals in a chequered pattern, it would have 17 potential growth space thereby maximising the potential. There are patterns to max out the efficiency you need to figure it out. Also if there are 2 blobs of crystals growing, linking them together would increase their growth tremendously.

SeducedKnight said:You can make nice self-replenishing crystalline "farms"...
Layout like this.
R R R R R R R R R
R F C C W C C F R
R C C W C W C C R
R C W C C C W C R
R W C C C C C W R
R C W C C C W C R
R C C W C W C C R
R F C C W C C F R
R R R R R R R R R
where:
F = Regolith Furnace
C = Crystalinne
W = Wall
R = Road

The harvesters can freely get to the outside ones by the furnaces and some of the inside ones diagonally, but not all, your "seed" in the center will be safe.
They might sometimes glitch to inside the wall but if you go off screen a bit they'll come out again(without cleaning out your "seed"). Layout a few of theses for the harvesters to move between and crystalline won't be an issue anymore.

I tried this and for some reason it did not work. The rovers would be stuck on trying to get the crystalline inside the walls...