What will be your first planet?

[sweet lemonade]

For those who intend to play/are playing Space Age and know a bit about each planet, what planet do you want to travel to first after launching from Nauvis? I'm going to go to Gleba first because I love the bio stuff and starfish things, plus the gameplay seems the most unique.

[James]

Vulcanus because I need it first for one of the new achievements (Keeping your hands clean). Otherwise, I would choose Fulgora for the mech suit and recyclers to start quality looping.

[Geobor]

Gleba 🥺

[Morsk]

I want to do Gleba first but there's an achievement to kill no spawners before artillery, and artillery is on Vulcanus, and I don't think Gleba can be progressed at all without killing a spawner.

Can't decide. It's not like I'm only going to play once.

[mrxak]

Vulcanus seems like the most logical choice. The productivity bonus from the new buildings there is immensely powerful and will help a lot on all other planets. I think most people are headed to Vulcanus first if they aren't trying to make things harder on themselves than they have to. After that Fulgora is the next logical choice, to get circuit production and all the other electronic bits really high. Between those two planets, producing rockets at scale becomes very easy, and this can power any future endeavors on any world.

[Danny in Space]

Originally posted by mrxak:

Vulcanus seems like the most logical choice. The productivity bonus from the new buildings there is immensely powerful and will help a lot on all other planets. I think most people are headed to Vulcanus first if they aren't trying to make things harder on themselves than they have to. After that Fulgora is the next logical choice, to get circuit production and all the other electronic bits really high. Between those two planets, producing rockets at scale becomes very easy, and this can power any future endeavors on any world.

Every planet needs a base because transferring materials planet to planet is extremely tedious and inefficient. Mega bases are now pointless and having one planet be a hub is not intended.

[mrxak]

Originally posted by Danny in Space:

Originally posted by mrxak:

Vulcanus seems like the most logical choice. The productivity bonus from the new buildings there is immensely powerful and will help a lot on all other planets. I think most people are headed to Vulcanus first if they aren't trying to make things harder on themselves than they have to. After that Fulgora is the next logical choice, to get circuit production and all the other electronic bits really high. Between those two planets, producing rockets at scale becomes very easy, and this can power any future endeavors on any world.

Every planet needs a base because transferring materials planet to planet is extremely tedious and inefficient. Mega bases are now pointless and having one planet be a hub is not intended.

And yet everyone will still ship their science back to Nauvis because that's the only planet you can have your science consumed at with efficiency. With the resources required to build new rockets effectively being free, shipping stuff around from planet to planet is absolutely the intended gameplay.

Yes, every planet does need a base, and some things will still be manufactured locally. But these bases will all be specialized around their unique planetary advantages, and produce bulk goods for specialized export.

[sweet lemonade]

Originally posted by Danny in Space:

Originally posted by mrxak:

Vulcanus seems like the most logical choice. The productivity bonus from the new buildings there is immensely powerful and will help a lot on all other planets. I think most people are headed to Vulcanus first if they aren't trying to make things harder on themselves than they have to. After that Fulgora is the next logical choice, to get circuit production and all the other electronic bits really high. Between those two planets, producing rockets at scale becomes very easy, and this can power any future endeavors on any world.

Every planet needs a base because transferring materials planet to planet is extremely tedious and inefficient. Mega bases are now pointless and having one planet be a hub is not intended.

This is really exciting to me. I always hated megabasing and felt like it was a bad endgame. As for Vulcanus I think that will be my "logical" choice after Gleba, then Fulgora can be where I start quality minmaxing and revisiting old planets.