Tech planets

[Elowan]

I'm assuming that you have to colonize a planet to gain the acient tech (unlike MOOII where merely discovering it was sufficient). That being the case - if I colonize a sucky planet to get the tech - do I lose the tech if I abandon that planet?

[Captain Kwok]

No. You'll always have the tech regardless if you continue to occupy the planet.

[Phoenix-D]

Don't abandon it though. If nothing else you can fill it with storage components, research componets, intel, etc.

Phoenix-D

[Baron Munchausen]

Yeah, planets with no resource value are still useful as resource storage. You ought to have the equivalent of at least a year's maintenance costs on hand at all times just in case of disaster. It's difficult if not impossible to have 'too much' resource storage.