Tried playing DSP on 0.07 resource richness and max combat difficulty, everything except hive growth rate (so that I can eventually exterminate them all). 21.8x metadata rate

Had to skip transport belts and assemblers, hand-craft blue science and hand-research gun turrets before the first attack. Now I can't seem to expand outside this gun brick. Found another planet that's mostly clean so I set up blue science and a mall there, but red needs crude oil so I had to come back to this hell.

Still losing turrets in every fight, not sure how combat is supposed to work and if that's normal.