I am doing the all planets mod right now, and after clearing nearly every other planet in the first area (over a dozen planets) I finally came across this one. I left it near the end because it said it was swarming with bitters and I thought getting a bunch of upgrades in military would be a good idea (it was). While it seems like I might not have a good understanding of this planet because I barely did anything on it, I feel as if I need to point out some issues I am seeing:
1) The cost of UV turrets is beyond insane. See the two photos for reference. I did not mine a single piece of ore, and look at how much of the area I have already explored. There is less than 600k ore in this entire area, and one UV turret takes over 300k ore?! Something needs to change. If we were to equate the cost of a laser turret to this, based on ore patch size and effectiveness, it would take around a million copper and iron to make a single laser turret...
2) I tried the UV turret out, and it is beyond underwhelming. I thought that maybe with such an insane cost, it would at least be extremely strong, but it is about as strong as a few laser turrets in terms of effectiveness.
3) If you thought the turret was insane, just get ready for the cost of a single UV lamp, a whopping 5 electrical cables, 2 circuits, 1 lamp, and drum roll please... 3.125 MILLION ORE. I tried it out, and I honestly couldn't tell if it was working or not. The enemies just ran up and killed it... 3 Million ore down the drain, easy.
4) This is by far the hardest planet in terms of enemies, and not only has the lowest reward out of any planet, but doesn't have any tech or science. I think it needs something to draw a player in, some productivity bonus, new buildings, or something. Anything. There are some planets that I wasn't a huge fan of, but because they provided strong rewards and interesting tech, I completed them, and will likely go back to them when I am upgrading everything.
https://imgur.com/a/IrdC7MP
I would strongly recommend avoiding this one.