What Type of Colony to build??

[hbailey]

The tutorial hinted that it made no difference - what type of colony you choose when you first establish a colony?
NO matter what I choose, I can still build whatever facilities I want on the planet.

So what purpose does it serve to pick 'resupply' over 'military'?

If I turn ministers 'ON' - is this where the colony type would make a difference??

[pathfinder]

If I have guessed right and remember a previous post, naming a planet one of the stock type names gives a construction minister (if turned on) an idea as to what to build.

[Taqwus]

It might be useful in reminding you why you colonized the planet in the first place -- which might be important because in one turn you can colonize many planets, and you don't get a chance to set their build queues until all of them are colonized. (Idea -- allow a label to correspond to a template queue...) So if you at one point realize that you need more research or intel, badly, you don't just build resource facilities on all those worlds, and so forth.

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