One World Mega Evil Empire.

[Instar]

The way it used to be was that you could fly around, and put a star anywhere in a system (really, you could!)
But thats changed now, its different. One star per system, in the center. It was funny though. Your ship could go around farting stars out wherever it wanted.

[Puke]

since you brought it up, what is the advantage now to the crystal-tech solar collectors that give 300 of each resource per star? they only equal a monolith III in a trinary system, and trinaries are fairly rare. they are a special race-trait tech too, so what gives?

[Seawolf]

Puke,

I believe that solor collectors go on ships where the monolith is on a planet.

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Seawolf on the prowl

[Puke]

thats what i get for paying attention. im going to go hide in my corner now.

[Puke]

hey, they do too go on planets, so the question still stands. I did mean to say solar generator instead of collector though.

oops.

[Taqwus]

I believe MM mentioned that it did NOT decrease planet value, which should be useful in a finite-resources game.

If you can afford to carve out a large domain, and then play defensively (and expensively! 10k/10k/10k) for a long time while your opponents exhaust their resources, you'll be the only one left that can afford a fleet.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Psitticine]

I think they're also not dependent on planet value so that, for example, a planet with a mineral value of 8% can still be a decent producer for that resource.