bronze oriole
The 4 shrimps at the start of the game usually automatically go to the first tar-pit they see, however if they are done mining before the first biocache is created they will stand still and not do anything, because they don't have anywhere to drop the resources.
This causes situations where the Commander thinks the starting shrimps are working, but they are not. Having the Nest serve as a biocache would prevent this situation.
silver epoch
Would help when you run out of money and people destroyed everything but you have a nest hidden and 32 shrimp doing nothing.
finite patrol
Not a bad idea perse but not really needed.
cosmic juniper
Just build a bio cache lol it takes like 10 seconds.
bronze oriole
Yes, having a biocache build before the shrimps are done makes it so the shrimps go mining, and there is no problem then. The point of this post is about what can happens if you are late with building the biocache, which causes the early shrimps to stand still until you notice that.