I always leave the space yards on the planets. What use is a planet with nothing to build? Why not use those planets to pump out ships to use. Producing a lot of resources is useless if it just gets wasted (except in the tournament
).
And on a large or huge world you will definately more than break even. You get 100 per facility then when you add up the population and happiness bonus and any facility bonuses you come out a lot ahead.
Another point if you have minerals going into storage, or even worse being wasted, every turn anyway the expense of what you are building really "costs" you nothing.
[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 09 February 2001).]