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That is also correct, however what I got from Drake's comment was that the top scorers in the contest are all going to have close to the 2000 limit on ships/bases, so the difference is going to be who can get the most resource points out of your colonies.
Absolutely correct. Also, mothballing and unmothballing at the end is a bad idea for the contest, even if it were legal (which it isn't, BTW). You need resources ON HAND to unmothball, which as geoschmo pointed out aren't added to your score. This takes storage facilities which use up room for resource producing facilities. By doing this, you're just hurting yourself.
I only use storage to keep current resource holding up for retrofitting. I plan on scrapping all my storage facilities after I am done building ringworlds, since I won't need to retrofit anything after that. I build one extra component two years ahead of the other 10, and take a two step retrofit to the core piece (costs a cpl hundred K, but years faster).
-Drake