Colony Management

[Suicide Junkie]

Early on (first year), building a stack of 3-4 SY bases will help a lot.
You can pump out ships much faster that way.

Any planet that has excellent value in organics or rads should have some extractors of that type, even if you don't need them. Either you'll need them later, or you can scrap extractors on a multi-resource world in order to make room for more mineral miners.

When building monoliths, it is best to fill up the planet with regular miners first, then build one monolith and scrap one extractor at a time to change the planet over to monoliths.
Regular extractors can be made much faster than monoliths, and you'll harvest some extra resources while the monoliths are under construction.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Litcube:
Cool.

You were also mentioning before, you place a SY on every colony with more than 4 spaces?

Yes. I try to get as much ship building capacity as possible. Overwhelming your enemies is the surest path to victory.

When building monoliths, it is best to fill up the planet with regular miners first, then build one monolith and scrap one extractor at a time to change the planet over to monoliths.

That is a micromanagement nightmare, and I do not recommend doing that unless you want to spend 4 hours on a turn once you get a large empire.

[ July 30, 2003, 20:16: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

One colony type I added was "Warehouse Colony" Not to be confused with "Whorehouse Colony" Mediocre resources, 1 shipyard for repair only, and lots of cargo. The premise is that this colony would pump out and store Weapons Platforms for future use and deployment; if I should need to dipatch a large transport to pick them up for deployment on the infidels planets. Could do the same for fighters too. Could get pricey if my WP's get obsolete!
I guess this could be called a "Military Outpost" also.

[Ed Kolis]

I've created "Storage Bases" (1 SY and the rest resource storage) and "Resource Colonies" (monoliths)...

I like to put a SY on every planet, no matter how insignificant, just because it provides a larger shipbuilding capacity and I don't have to worry when I go to the construction queues to multi-add a ship that I haven't turned off "planets (without shipyards)" in the build queues window and lose my selection Why can't you select a group of SY's by clicking the first then shift-clicking the Last, and make control-clicking select one at a time?

[Litcube]

Awesome help, thanks guys.

[Stone Mill]

You may enjoy some of your questions explored in the Newbie FAQ:

17.3 Managing Your Economy

[Mathias_Ice]

Originally posted by EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro:
One colony type I added was "Warehouse Colony" Not to be confused with "Whorehouse Colony"

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