Are single facility planets useful for anything other than 'bookmarks' (waypoints?)

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Elowan:
I've colonized a few out-system tiny (red plus) planets when they've had ancient artifacts on them.

What facility would you build there?
Would you abandon that planet once you have the tech or does it pay to stick around in the event a colonizable ability reveals another ruin planet in that system?

Yeesh... while they might not be the same priority level as larger worlds, tiny worlds are still WORLDS. Once you build something there, even a lone mineral extraction facility, you get the output at no maintenance cost forever more. What could be wrong with that? And yes, once you have the tech you can build an atmosphere converter and get more space. Or you can enslave some aliens that breathe the atmosphere and move them there. This is both much cheaper and quicker.

The only reason I can see to abandon a tiny world is if you want to use remote mining. You can get much more output from a tiny world using a large base full of remote extraction components than you can even with atmosphere conVersion or a native-breather race. With a starbase you can get something like 20 times as much! But that's going to reduce the value of the world if you haven't changed the setting that controls remote mining.