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Originally posted by rdouglass:
I'm currently playing a game where I have Religious trait (Talismans are COOL - you never miss with direct fire weapons!!!) and 2 RW's. On the RW's I have a Space Port, ShipYard, Nature Shrine (increase all values of planet 3% per year), Time Shrine (increase production by 15%), Robotoid Factory, and Monolith III's. Each Rw is putting out OVER 200K each of resources!!!
In my game for the TG contest, I only had time to build about 50 facilities on my ringworlds, and ended up with about 380K each. Don't bother with time shrines, use system robotoid facilities instead (30% bonus instead of 15%), and don't put that on the ringworld itself, use a support planet that's tiny for all system effects! You're wasting space by putting system effects on a bigger planet, unless you need to for defense purposes. Also, instead of waiting for the nature shrine to do its work, put multiple value improvement facilities on the ringworld until it hits 250%, then scrap the facilities and just put Monolith IIIs on them. The nature shrine is good for early cheap improvement, but if you're building ringworlds, you should have the tech and resources to go with improvement facilities instead.
Under the correct racial settings, you can get over 1 million production per resource on a full ringworld, and 2 million on the sphereworlds. If you don't believe me, here's the math, using a race with advanced storage.
118 (facilities) * 900 resources * 2.5 (value) * 1.3 (planet robotoid) * 1.3 (system robotoid) * 2.4 (100% population + 20% happiness + 20% racial bonuses) =
1,076,868
The 118 assumes two facilities are for the spaceyard and planetary robotoid factory.
Switching to 238 for a sphereworld nets you 2,171,988 in each resource.