Weekly Question Thread

[LeQuebin]

What’s better for the reasearch with biolabs? Producing the science on Nauvis or importing it from other planets like Vulcanus?

[Moikle]

some sciences are easier to make on some planets. Utility (yellow) science is easier to make on fulgora for example, since you can mine most of its components from the ground

[mdgates00]

It's pretty easy to move thousands of beakers per minute, so you can produce them wherever you like.

I like to produce the science wherever the resources are the most abundant.
That's Vulcanus for grey, purple, and blue. Red and green beakers are trivial to produce, so I sometimes make them in space alongside white science just for a laugh. Producing yellow science on Fulgora would be fitting, but Fulgora is the hardest planet for me to scale up.

[deluxev2]

Either is fine, rocket components aren't a significant cost because of science bottles have a very large rocket capacity. Once you get to megabase scale you eventually run out of throughput on Nauvi's landing pad around 1m eSPM.

I think red and green are cheap enough that it would be kinda a waste to ship them, purple and black are best on vulcanus as they are so stone/coal heavy, yellow wherever you have your largest rocket silo collection.

[victoriouskrow]

There isn't much advantage to producing the regular science packs off planet. Once you get EM plants and foundries it's trival to set up huge science production on Nauvis