[PvK]

I just meant it was a big exaggeration to say they weren't useful, because clearly they are, since you can combine planet-wide facilities, population effects, and defenses all in one massive colony. The fewer spaceports, mineral scanners, robot factories, planetary grav shields, value improvement plants, and so on that need to be built and guarded, the better. They also prevent the sun from going nova.

PvK

P.S. What I meant by "once they are completed" was the time and effort required to create the artificial world in the first place. The nova prevention is useful immediately, as is the ability to store massive amounts of units and to start building massive amounts of facilities and build up a massive population, where before all there was was a star.

[ July 21, 2002, 22:04: Message edited by: PvK ]