[Puke]

RWs and SWs both have 500kT of resources, or far less than a good homeworld. value improvement plants do indeed function, a vlaue 3 took a sphereworld from 500-515-531kT of each resource over 2 years of operation. however, if you loaded it with monolith facilites, it would probably use far more than this.. it would probably be worthwhile to stick a value improvement plant on your homeworlds though, as they tend to start with 1-2mT on normal or good starts (if i recall)

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