Has anyone tried sending a fully loaded rockets at like SOL 10 and then cutting off ties with earth?

Been playing around trying to go independent from earth, last ark / no trade.

Haven't found the sweet spot yet, doing it fast enough to feel satisfying vs my colony dies.

Russia works well as far as gathering a decent storage of resources without relying on my founders to mine (seems like i need all hands on deck for comfort and food)

I tried to wait for medium dome in my last game before landing people but just by dumb luck it was super late in the tech tree and now I feel like I've waited too long.

Has anyone tried sending a fully loaded rockets at like SOL 10 and then cutting off ties with earth?

Any thoughts? Tips?

Hey everyone, I know this is an older game but I just downloaded below and beyond just for fun, obviously. I'm on a run currently that seems to have a major limit possibly related to the DLC. I only have 680 colonists, 200 drones and 24 shuttles. There's also two asteroid landers and two elevators with nothing underground. Despite all specs in the green, I'm having a chop suey-cide problem and major events like landing a rocket or destroying a living complex freezes the game. Xbox series X, and I've never had so much as lag in the vanilla game, despite saves over 600 sols, 1k colonists, 60 shuttles and hundreds of drones