My second base, on XG-326a is up and running, but not yet very profitable. The added materials needed to deal with the hostile environment (Hardened Structural Elements against high atmospheric pressure) make every building much more expensive, and thus payback periods are far longer. However, I do hope that with time the abundant mineral resources (limestone, silicon ore, titanium ore) will make up for this. I also hope that the carbon and oxygen I produce on Verdant can be profitably employed by a smelter operation on XG-326a to turn those ores into more valuable silicon and titanium.

I play Prosperous Universe on a PC, using a browser instead of the Steam client. Those two are pretty similar, but the browser allows some addons in the form of Chrome extensions. There is also a much reduced client available when using a browser on a mobile platform, like my iPad. Now, as usual, I will spend three weeks in July on my summer holidays, and I won't take any PC with me, just my Switch and iPad. So my Prosperous Universe activity will by technical necessity be much reduced. I'll try to stock up on things and just accumulate profits over that time, but things could easily go wrong and my production could come to a halt. To be continued in August.