Adaptive Drill vs Exploration Drill
I'm looking at the info in the IPM Module spreadsheet. It lists Exploration Drill as the best drill module, with Adaptive Drill being almost as good. The effects are:
| Adaptive Drill: Freely Upgrade the first level of 3 different planet colonies. All rerolled colony requests cost 5% less than normal. Reroll Cooldown is now 11 hours instead of 12. |
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| Exploration Drill: Pick an Unlocked Telescope and add one mining colony level to all of its planets. Can be used on one different telescope researches. |
If I am reading this correctly, Exploration Drill lets me pick Telescope 16, and I get one Mining Colony on P50, P51 and P52. P51 is currently my VPS, so the free colony there is great. I usually don't even unlock P50 and P52. I might unlock P52 and a one or two levels in it if I have not gotten a pink asteroid drop with Aether.
Alternatively, Adaptive Drill lets me add one free colony to three planets of my choice. Picking those planets as the planets where I apply Alchemy 1, 2 and 3 seems like the obvious choice. That would give the same bonus to my VPS, and a bonus to two other planets that (for a while) are my main source of cash and GV.
Am I missing something here?
Note: I haven't actually used a module with either of these yet, so I could easily be missing something in the actual implementation.