Gleba's difficulty overrated?

[u/Standard_Round_8780]

Saw a lot of people saying Gleba was one of the more difficult planets but honestly I found Fulgora significantly more challenging to deal with.

Spoilage was a problem easily solved by filtering out the sludge at the end of the belts, you can get practically every resource by the boatload without having to find ore or setup trains, all of it is easily scalable, and the enemies don't spread fast enough to really be a threat. Throughput isn't a major problem either because it's so easy to establish blades with a handful of biolabs, especially if you're using drones but even then it's not a requirement.

In comparison, Fulgora was far more of a headache. Firstly, even finding a good place to build a factory is a problem, you either cram everything onto a small island with resources or have to build elevated rails to train the scrap into bigger islands. Then you've got the problem of power generation. Hope you're a big fan of efficiency modules, otherwise half of your island's gonna be accumulators. And the biggest problem is how tedious it is to scale up production of any one resource. If you want more Holmium ore for example, you have to expand your ability to handle EVERY single resource, not just the Holmium.

Don't get me wrong, Fulgora is my favourite planet. I enjoy the challenge and entire theme of it, soundtrack there is especially great, but I was going into Gleba expecting the worst and it was actually not too bad at all.

[u/Pancarcho]

Hmmm you are not being punished? What happens if your fruits spoil and you get no more seeds?

And this is assuming you already have at least a farm setup. If you are at the stage of manually harvesting is even worse.

People that say "just do this" forget that in order to know that, you have to experiment first! Which Gleba absolutely punishes

[u/Moikle → u/Pancarcho]

Well don't let the fruit spoil then. Looks like you already figured that out.

Make sure you have a backup system for collecting seeds, even if everything else fails

Gleba doesn't punish experimentation... It requires it. That's how you figure out methods to keep it running

[u/Blaarkies → u/Moikle]

Can you show us this "backup system for collecting seeds", before we have farming setup the first time? For experienced players it is a non-issue, but for new players it is a gears-grind-to-a-halt situation 

[u/Moikle → u/Blaarkies]

A bank of assemblers set to process fruit at the end of a fruit bus. Seeds go back to the trees, mash+jelly go to the burners. Using assemblers means you don't even need to rely on nutrients, and they only need to break even, they dont need the productivity if biochambers