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Cap-Lada

The flying box of potatoes! Enough space on top to land on with small fleet of Mini-line vessels and contains everything essential inside. I was actually asked what is my load-out on the survival games and I'm afraid the answer is not really elegant or even interesting. This thing eats roughly the same amount of raw materials as the original starter small vessel (+ tiny bits of sathium and neodymium, which you generally get from asteroids and looting enemy bases) :D

I've tried strapping a turret or a few on top of it too, not even once used any of those, so they're not included in the blueprint. Aside from that I just make one Mini-Advanced and one Mini-Raid and stick those on roof. Then just leave the box hanging on the orbit while you clear the planets drone base and find suitable landing spot. After two first planets I'll usually hang one of my "pocket-cruiser"s on top of it too, just to chew down those buildings even faster, since there's nothing meaningfull to loot after you've cleared two first worlds.

Edit: Added image of the whole setup I use for "late-game" survival. Picture is taken from an experimental ship, which turned out to be useless due to rockets bugging and exploding in the tubes instead of launching. So not going to publish that :D That aside, My current clean-up fleet is one Lada, one Mini-Raid (with double miniguns) and one Mini-Advanced with one railgun.

Build from the start is: Just mine until you get to the level 3, then make Mini-Hover to explore if the seed has any proper mineral deposits (at least you need copper and iron under 1km distance from each other) personally I prefer to use power stations on Akua and Xenu temples on Omicron, depending where you start. As soon as you find proper location make base there or invade Power station or Xenu temple depending where you did start. Power stations are considerably easier since there's no troops inside, but as a downside they lack plant pots, which are ready in temples. From level 7 you can make Mini-Me small vessel to explore more and mine asteroids for sathium. From level 10 I usually start building one Mini-Bomber or Mini-Advanced and this cap ship o'course. Then you're all set actually :D