Storage facilities

[Gryphin]

I used to say I would not build them at all. Ooopsss. Boy was I naive.
I defer from the others in tha;
Early Game:
I buld them first chance I get to grab the early over abundance.
I tend to put them on High Mineral planets while I have an over abundance.
As I go minus I then scrap the ones on High Mineral planets and build Mines.
Later I will build them on smaller low mineral planets / moons.

[Puke]

play porportions, then. you start with alot more storage, and i think there is more realism

[Fyron]

In P&N, each resource producing facility has some storage built into it.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
I think Production and maintenance is subtracted from generation.
I know that retrofits are withdrawn straight from storage AFTER production/maintenace, AFTER the storage limits are applied, and BEFORE the generation.

I think you may wish to rephrase this, when you say:
a)production/maintenance is subtracted from generation (which implies generation comes first).
b) Retrofits are withdrawn ....AFTER production/maintenance and BEFORE the generation.

In any event, are you trying to say (in order of sequence):

1) new storage limits are increased (ie new storage facilities constructed)
2) retrofits are paid out of storage
3) the net of production/maintenance and production is added or subtracted to storage.

Just a bit confused...

[Baron Grazic]

The best place to put Storage Facilities is in a system that doesn't contain a Space Port. Doesn't sounds realistic but it works.
I also build enough Storage Facility to hold 1/4 Millian of all resources, for when I need them in the late game.

[Tezzezar]

Ships are Mothballed in space. No storage used.

Any player who has never run low on resources isn't playing a decent human opponent. A minimal investment in 20 or so storage facilities over the first 30 - 40 turns captures early revenue which will prevent a critical shortage late in the game when suddenly there is a need to spend 250,000 KT of minerals to replace that destroyed fleet.

Save for the future. Always.

BTW, for most races I find a ratio of 4 mineral/2 radioactive/1 organic storage facilies to be effective.

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
The best place to put Storage Facilities is in a system that doesn't contain a Space Port. Doesn't sounds realistic but it works.
I also build enough Storage Facility to hold 1/4 Millian of all resources, for when I need them in the late game.

It's best NOT to concentrate your storage in any one place, though. What if the star in that system with all your storage goes nova? Oops... Similarly, if a large planet full of storage facilities has the 'unstable core' event, or just gets attacked and destroyed/captured by an enemy, it's a major blow. Best to put a few storage facilities on many large/huge planets scattered around. I tend to put them on Military Installations because those are low resource value planets anyway.

[Baron Grazic]

I didn't mean to say that this the only place I create Storage Facilities. I find it is best to colonise say 3 planets in a new system at a time, have 2 planets build Storage facilities, while the third is building the Space Port, and then build what even is needed.
I know someone will say that its better to build a SY or Minerals Facility, etc during this time, but everyone has their own styles - That is why PBW is so much fun.

[ September 12, 2002, 03:10: Message edited by: Baron Grazic ]

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
....I know that retrofits are withdrawn straight from storage AFTER production/maintenace, AFTER the storage limits are applied, and BEFORE the generation.

Is that correct? I thought for sure that funds are drawn instantly at the time of retrofit??? If you don't have enough on hand, the retrofit don't happen....IIRC...

[PvK]

You're describing turn-based mode. He was describing simultaneous mode.

PvK