[grumbler]

Originally posted by pathfinder:
Is that 50% MORE or less costly?

50% less costly. It makes the facilitities easy enough to build on a domed world in less than years and years, but they screw up the planet - but if it is domed and of limited utility anyway, why not do it?

Because they are not the most effective facilities, the AI won't use them unless specificaly told to do so. And I don't see any way for the AI to distinguish between domed and undomed worlds, it may not be something they can do - but is still a cool thing for the human player to do.

Note that remote mining satellites are more efficient, probably (though slower) but I am not sure we want anyone but the nomads to use remote mining. I think of Marcus's facility on Whatsitsname Somenumber to be a facility, not a satellite.