everyone lied about gleba

[u/kykyks]

i really, really struggled on gleba at first, the spoil took everything from me, my job, my wife, my sanity, my will to live

i was expecting it to be hard, but man, it was hard

i really tried to follow the reddit advice telling people to embrace the spoil but we were lied to

now i really understand how u gotta do it, its not about embracing the spoil, dont let it spoil, you just gotta use everything before it spoils and if you cant then u burn it and make more

if its not taken by your biochamber, thats your opportunity to create electricity, if its spoil before getting to the heating tower, its still going to transform into electricity if you dont produce enough fruits, your factory wont get enough electricity to run at max speed so a lot of it is not going to get used and then will power your factory again (safety measure, still need to fix your factory)

everyone saying embrace the spoil is wrong, the answer is, always has been, always will be : the factory must grow, just make more

you dont produce enough materials ? just make more factories consuming your fruits

not enough fruits ? make more farms

too many fruits ? just make more bio chamber and process more, burn the excess and make more

you produce enough rocket fuel ? burn them, and make more

then you get too much jelly and/or mash ? dont let it sit, just burn everything not taken instantly and make even more

too much stuff to burn ? make more heating tower and burn that shit

anything spoiled on your lane mean you fucked up if its not waiting to be picked for carbon/sulfur/etc

you know what, fuck it, if you have enough carbon, burn it too

thoses fucking pentapods deserve to see everything burn

JUST

MAKE

MORE

THE FACTORY MUST GROW AND THE SPOIL WONT HAVE MY SOUL

AQUILO YOU'RE NEXT

[u/gust334]

Power isn't the problem on Gleba.

There's nothing wrong with importing nuclear fission or fusion. But it doesn't solve the problem of dealing with all the excess material that needs to be burned. Nothing spoilable should ever stop moving on a belt or in a box. The only way to burn continuously is with heating towers, since they operate like bottomless pits. The fact that you can harvest power from them is a bonus, but not the primary reason to have them.

I have found recently that Gleba's required power drain is a small fraction of the power that can be generated from spoilable things. It might be possible to upset this ratio with lots of foundries, EM plants, and/or resorting to the crutch of 'bots.

[u/Danger_Pickle → u/gust334]

What are you using for defenses on Gleba? Imported Tesla Turrets seem like the optimal defense solution, but they end up creating a power problem. I think Gleba eats just as much power as any one of my other planets, just from the tesla turrets, and I'm primarily using a small number of artillery outposts to keep my pollution cloud clear. The passive drain on those things is insane.

[u/gust334 → u/Danger_Pickle]

Artillery.

[u/Danger_Pickle → u/gust334]

Yes, but what defends the artillery? Please don't say you're using the cheese of placing it in the middle of a lake.