Orbital Quick Start

Quick and dirty orbital station start. No goods need to be sent to an early station. Workshops and support modules are enough to get some great bonuses early in the game.

Short and Sweet

• First, place enough residential around launch pad to staff workshops. One workshop needs around 50%, for two workshops 100% is best.
  
  
  
• Second, build a cheap layout for the station. This example uses two workshops, a greenhouse, and two solar panels.
  
  
  
• With the bonuses from the support modules and optimal temperature there should be plenty of expertise to spend on techs.
  
  
  
• Third, choose your techs in the Nexus. With the station layout shown above here are the current techs I've chosen.
  

After the timers for more workshops finish, I'll switch one of the techs to the 'replace beef with rice' tech and add more workshops. Then choose wether to continue teching up agriculture or something else.

[Simon McAllister]

Teching up to tier 5 in enough of the fields to unlock everything is a good goal. Thing is don't rely on the second tech as you will have to replace your workshops atleast 3 times to get it all. The research for orbital links labs and workshops is all your to keep once unlocked. Even if you decide to tear the station down and rebuild it. Using as many labs for as many workshops as possible is also a good strat. But keep in mind the heat. Optimal temp is very important to maximize the expertise each workshop produces. Agri and Bio use the same labs so you can make it so that ag and bio are using the same labs. They however do not take the same number of each lab. Each workshop will use a lab if a clear path goes from the workshop to the lab.

[Reinier dash]

hey is your moon crops supose to be 200 mine shows it needs 200 moon crops

[Martian]

Here's my layout for 5xBIOLOGIST for full Agriculture tech tree with perfect coverage for 100 expertise. You need to supply the needed materials: Moons crops and Deep Water Colars to reach that 100.

Here's a schema layout:
https://i.imgur.com/MeN8Tiq.png

And here's an actual screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/IbA0ZcP.png

[Artillery Horse]

thx for this