[gregebowman]

Personally, I colonize every planet I can. Even a small or tiny planet can hold at least one storage facility, and that's one more than I had before. I try to balance out the storage vs the mining, because it makes no sense to have all of that "money" to go to waste just because you can't store it. And then I'll research the monoliths and robot factories and other things that will increase production and storage.