Well, I'm going to eventually make a 17X C Plasma, but I was beginning to think that as for right now, until I get the planet data optimizers and passive stat boosters to get it to a 15X with 3.5k passive cloak and defense and 1k passive attack, would it not be in my best interest to make a different VM gas planet into a plasma? (By the time I get everything I need I should have the 29 more processing cores I need to make another one)

My other question is, which criteria should I base the to be plasma'd planet on?
I was thinking my largest gas with the fewest scans, because the resource availability shouldn't matter, because it's always going to be +50% to the availability, right?

Why not go Kronyn?

Multiple reasons. I don't want to. I don't want to waste energy on it when I can use to get my mk3's, I want my final one before 300, I really don't feel like spending the credits and resources to get flux probes, and I plan on eventually going drannik.

Forget RP ... get a VM gas/V.sparse, use 25 terraformers to make it 13/13/15, then plasma it to colossal 13/13/17. Best use of the upgrades. But it's also good for a 17x RP straight up, start with a VM/rich gas.

Or, I could use those terraformers on a colossal gaia lol... I'm not really wanting to focus energy on non PvP reasons at this point in time, at least not until I get all of my mk3's, then I want to do missions until I get my Krionite transducer, by then I should have drannik unlocked, and then I'll go back to NPCing