fladiv in your vanilla se4 Finite game, many players may say Resource Storage Facilities are great to save for an expensive upgrade reserve otherwise it it only a stopgap.
Some savvy players live on the edge when it comes to resource reserves
Try building a few Base Shipyards and build many ships and Colonizers this will use much of your starting income.
Yes, as you say scrap un-needed Resource Extraction Facilities is very wise and replace this with Research or Intel Facilities etc, when in need scrap the latter for that resource.
Remember, that Planet Utilization is a key to your success and resource Extraction techs are not a priority early in that style game.
As the Players have mentioned the vanilla se4 AI will suck there planets resources dry.
[ November 03, 2003, 13:18: Message edited by: JLS ]