I’ve seen discussions on which is the best planet to visit first, but I want to know which is the best planet to stay on! So far I’ve been to Vulcanus and Fulgora and I’m thinking of setting up a new center of manufacturing on Vulcanus because of how abundant basic resources are and to take advantage of foundries (and my operations on Nauvis have several bottlenecks I don’t feel like fixing). From there I can launch a fleet of space platforms and blot out the sky! Have you thought about picking a new home from among the stars, and if so, which one?
You said that one of your reasons is to “take advantage of foundries”, and I wanted to mention that while they must be built on Vulcanus, you can place them on other planets!
I’m thinking gleba because I don’t wanna deal with freshness or spoilage as much.
Fulgora maybe because it’s hard to expand with out personally being there. I can expand nauvis or vulcanus remotely.
That’s a good point! Not having to move materials off planet will help keep them fresh. I also don’t want to deal with spoilage, but I’ve just been avoiding going to Gleba!
I’m doing a Vulcanus main base playthrough now. It is definitely pretty cool how quickly I can just double production on something I need without needing to setup miners and defenses (though you need cliff explosives on Vulcanus like you need walls on Nauvis).
The big disadvantage of Vulcanus main basing is there are medium asteroids in orbit, so you have to construct your ships carefully. You can’t just slap down a large blueprint (well, maybe if you have a whole lot more rocket silos than I do). I have been thinking of making a small blueprint for a ship in orbit so that it can defend itself as I construct it, but I think it’s going to be a little tricky.
Yes… I noticed this also when I didn’t have the crushers to feed ammo production and spent the new few hours getting alerts my latest space platform was being slowly reduced to rubble 🥲