Black Site Daily Income and Collection Rhythm

Black Site income is not a number you chase — it is a rhythm you keep. Stations produce on cycles, storage caps what you can bank, and most of the difference between a productive base and a stalled one comes down to when you log in and what you tap first.

The core loop

Every session, in this order:

1. Collect everything. Walk the grid and pull all finished output into storage. Collected output can never be lost to a cap.
2. Restart the long cycles. Stations with multi-hour cycles should be topped up immediately after collection so their clock starts again, not after your match.
3. Check storage pressure. If any storage is near its cap, that station is overproducing relative to your consumption — either spend the output or rebalance toward the stations you actually use.
4. Spend before you leave. Reinvest collected currency and materials into the top-ranked upgrade from the priority ratio page while you are still in the menu.

Total session time: a few minutes if you skip the menus, longer when you are committing upgrades.

Offline production and the cap

Stations keep cycling while you are offline, but storage is finite. Output beyond the cap is lost, not queued. That single rule drives the whole rhythm:

• Short cycles that finish within a session or two tolerate a once-a-day check-in.
• Long cycles that finish over many hours need either a second collection before you log off for the night, or a storage level high enough to cover the gap. If the gap is longer than the cap allows, the station is mismatched to your schedule — level its storage or rebalance toward shorter cycles.

Cycle lengths and cap sizes are retuned each season and the station panel shows your account’s live values, so plan around the order you claim in rather than the absolute size of each claim.

Session patterns

Time available	What to do
2–5 minutes	Collect all, restart long cycles, log off
15 minutes	Collect, restart, commit one upgrade, check caps
Full session	Collect, then run matches, then collect again before logging off

The two-collection pattern is the highest-value habit: one collection when you start, one before you stop. It catches every cycle that finished during play and keeps long-cycle stations on a tight clock.

What daily income actually looks like

Expect a framework, not a promise: your daily total is the sum over stations of (output per cycle × cycles completed per day), minus anything lost to caps. The stations you upgraded per the priority ratio raise the first term; the collection rhythm protects it from the cap. Per-station values are retuned each season, so the durable read is which station sits on the path you already walk — that one gets claimed every session regardless of what it pays this season.

A base that collects twice a day with no cap losses outperforms a maxed base that collects once and wastes the overflow. Rhythm beats levels.

For what each station produces and how the buckets fit together, see the workstation overview; for arranging stations so collection walks stay short, see the layout tips.