Toilet, Research, and food.. then what?

[beowulf2010]

21 minutes ago, psusi said:

What?  Dupes can pee and eat while wearing an atmo suit?  That is weird.

Yep. They can even shower in a suit. Exosuit living has some major advantages to balance out the extra resources and ventilation required. 

[KittenIsAGeek]

On 2/21/2020 at 7:41 AM, beowulf2010 said:

Yep. They can even shower in a suit. Exosuit living has some major advantages to balance out the extra resources and ventilation required. 

I still play most of my games where suits are used only in limited situations.

[beowulf2010]

1 hour ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

I still play most of my games where suits are used only in limited situations.

I go back and forth myself. Sometimes I'll set up permanent suits, sometimes I'll seal the base via suit docks, sometimes I'll just build a set of docks at the oil biome and call it a day. 

[LucidFugue]

I tend to enjoy developing to improve efficiency. 

My first priority after toilets and food is getting automated power. I get off hamster wheels as soon as I can. I use a rock crusher to get just enough refined metal for the automation wire and smart battery, dig out and place my power plant. I think I got it down to about cycle 10 or so but it has been a while since I started fresh. 

After that I usually go for plumbing so my dupes don't have to clean toilets and flip compost. At some point research stops being a bottleneck and I'm waiting for one of my dupes to qualify for mechatronics engineer. That starts a run of automating stuff to save even more on dupe time.