Are glossy dreckos better than slicksters?

[MustardWarrior]

So I was curious and I just did some math based on something I read on the drecko wiki page here:

https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Drecko

It says 6 glossy dreckos make 1 ton of plastic every 10 cycles.  Which means 16.67 kg/cycle of plastic for a glossy drecko.  So if you have a sour gas condenser that means that plastic -> naptha -> sour gas. 16.67/600 = 0.02778 which is 27.8 grams of plastic per second.  Compared to slicksters which only spit out 16.7 grams per second of crude oil.

So if they are both being turned into sour gas it seems glossy dreckos are about 66% more efficient than slicksters.  And with wild mealwood, they don't even consume anything.

So assuming you just abandon slicksters because they're worse you get 27.8*0.67*(67.5/90)*0.888 = 12.4 g/s of oxygen per glossy drecko.  (First the fraction of sour gas that is methane, then the fraction of polluted water that comes from the natural gas generator, then the fraction of oxygen that comes from the water.)

Can anyone confirm that they can be sheared every 3 cycles? 

[abud]

2 hours ago, MustardWarrior said:

Can anyone confirm that they can be sheared every 3 cycles? 

Point cursor to their scale growth info in your drecko

But that's only the one inside hydrogen, this one that not in hydrogen

It will depend on your stable design, how much they will spent on hydrogen. This is an example of my failed stable experiment.

 

[MustardWarrior]

I read somewhere that the growth rate of the scales happens as long as it is in hydrogen so maybe you can keep some glossy dreckos for breeding purposes and just stick the rest in a hydrogen room and not even have to take care of them?

[pacovf]

A glossy drecko farm is a lot harder to setup than a slickster farm, and also usually requires you to breed regular dreckos until you get a glossy one.

Slicksters produce oil / petroleum, which can be used for other things than just plastic.

I think the main argument against slicksters is that your base likely doesn’t produce enough CO2 to feed too many slicksters, while it’s a lot easier to scale up a glossy drecko ranch.

I think they are both fine, honestly.

[MustardWarrior]

2 minutes ago, pacovf said:

A glossy drecko farm is a lot harder to setup than a slickster farm, and also usually requires you to breed regular dreckos until you get a glossy one.

Slicksters produce oil / petroleum, which can be used for other things than just plastic.

I think the main argument against slicksters is that your base likely doesn’t produce enough CO2 to feed too many slicksters, while it’s a lot easier to scale up a glossy drecko ranch.

I think they are both fine, honestly.

Either way you will at that point in the game have enough plastic regardless.  I'm just saying that if you are converting the vast majority of your petroleum into sour gas and condensing it, then it seems more efficient from a labor and lag reduction standpoint to just use glossy dreckos because as I mentioned their plastic production is greater than the crude oil production of slicksters.