I feel ya. After many hours of messing around on Gleba, trying to fix my factory into running smoothly. I just went for the simpler solution:
- Burn spoilage everywhere. While I already ensured that I could discard some spoilage here and there, I now have burning towers all trough my base so even if things stop and there is a massive amount of spoilage generated at once, it all gets burned off and fed again with new produce.
- This means the factory is always running, even if it's not producing anything. I always have egg production running and just burn off the excess, so that always consumes nutrients. Next to power generation this means a minimal flow is always running, and the rest is just spoilage generators that burn everything, until they are needed.
- Problem then becomes this causes a lot of evolution and spore generation. So, I next surrounded my whole base with a 2 layer thick wall, behind it a full line of gunturrets with piercing ammo, behind that a full line of laser turrets (which I imported from Fulgora) and behind that rocket turrets with a 2 turret gap in between. Each type of turrent line has it's own line of powerpoles, which all inter-connect as well, so a single power pole destroyed won't take out power of a section.
- This defense line has hold so far and I've finally felt confident enough to go off to another planet and that gleba won't need handholding at the moment. But that took 15 hours I think...
- And, I have started on "Operation orbital bombardment", where I want to ship in loads of artillery to keep the natives more at bay. As those stompers don't give a damn that you have a massive defense line, so taking out the nests hopefully will reduce the pressure on the defenses...