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Originally posted by Tomgs:
Also I have shipyards on 99% of my planets in a normal game so mineral miners III only take one turn to build normally. Once I research level III facilities a shipyard is the first thing I build on the planet. The 5 turns it takes to build are paid for after building the first 5 facilities then no upgrades are needed.
If you are going to leave the space yard on the planet, you *almost* break even by building the space yard first. But if you plan on scrapping it after you've built most of your mining facilities, then you will definitely lose resources along the way.
You just don't get enough resources from the Miner III vs. the Miner II facility.