How many butterfly domes do you need?

[Edmund Greyfox]

Is the butterfly dome something you need to build more than one of? So far I haven't seen any need to build more than one of any of the biodome buildings, but somehow i don't think the two slots in the butterfly dome are going to be enough for the insect stage.

Any thoughts or advice is appreciated. :)

[dollars202]

Pssh, 5 algae farms is more than enough, just collect butterflies from the temple area and recycle them down to the 3 algae they give. much easier than swimming for your algae. Also you'll get fertilizer that way too.

[Percale]

Originally posted by Edmund Greyfox:

Originally posted by Pesky:

"enough" for what ? Nothing is enough for the Fish stage, because there are no fish in the game yet. And you can't fail (unless you fail the extremely mild survival needs) because there are no time limits for terraforming. For everything up to fish, I've played the game as if it's a casual game, never really working hard at any one thing, and building whatever I wanted to look at. As long as you remember how useful rockets are you're never in any doubt that you'll reach the next stage in a reasonable time.

Define reasonable time. I get that the fish stage and later stuff isn't in the game yet, but it feels like certain things are really dragging, especially pressure. It's gone up about 2-3 PA in the last 10 hours of play, so at this rate it's going to take a week before i unlock the tier 3 extractors. Current rate is 298,470 nPa/s, and i built 2 more tier 4 pressure buildings since my last comment. Compare that to heat that now has two fewer buildings, but that hit it's final unlock 20+ hours ago.

There are many many ways to play this . Nice for me. I do find that if you focus on OXY early, everything else falls into place. Fish fall into place by simply disappearing from stage screen to be replaced by amphibians or animals or whatever else the devs are teasing Good to see Pesky and T up and about.

[SSgtMole]

I am 2 terraforming levels past breathable atmosphere.
I can't give you good pointers, because I had enough oxygen generated before that update dropped.
I no longer show a plus sign next to my O2 reading on the terraforming screen.
I have stopped building anything that generates oxygen only, but I have continued to build trees for biomass to help increase my terraforming index. But my insects and insect rockets are providing the bulk of my biomass generation.

I have at least 30 heat and 30 pressure rockets. In order to reach earth standard heat and air pressure, I've computed that you need more heat generation than pressure generation - about 1 1/2 to 2 times as much.

I have stopped building pressure rockets and pressure drills, and am currently building heat rockets and heaters (along with the power supplies to run them).

I am wondering if we are going to get T6 drills or heaters.