07-17-2013, 09:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-06-2013, 10:26 AM by Darth Pedro.)
FARMS:
Farms-1 can only be assembled and operated in Open Colonies (on habitable planets of course). Each one produces 25 FOOD per turn and these are your backbone for FOOD supply initially. They are limited to 100,000 Farms-1 per Habitability Factor so your initial home planet with Hab=25 can only operate 2,500,000 Farms-1. This limits FOOD production to 62,500,000 FOOD per turn. Each population consumes .25 FOOD per turn so the capacity is 250,000,000 population (unless you reduce the ration rate - DON'T).
Since the Habitability Factor of the home planet is 25 and each Hab Factor can support (you would need Life Supports in all but Open Colonies) 10,000,000 population...the capacities are the same. This means you had better find a way to put population elsewhere and that will required FEEDING them (as well as Life Support).
You can put Farms-2 through Farms-5 on your COLONIES within orbits 1 through 5 and they will use sunlight and if in the orbiters they will also use SOLAR POWER for their FUEL requirements (orbits 1 through 5 only). Typically they are used on Orbiters (OBC's) and in Enclosed Surface Colonies (ESC's).
Farms-6 are the lowest TL Farms you can operate on a ship so YOU NEED THEM SOON! They use artificial light and require FUEL and/or POWER plus staffing but NO sunlight as the lower TL Farms do.
Since Farms-2 and higher TL produce 5 x TL FOOD, you lose some efficiency until you get to Farms-6 anyway. Go for Farms-6 and put them in your OBC's and Ships ASAP. Farms-6 running in your OBC's in the inner orbits (1-5) are the best deal and with Automation use only a minimum of Professionals for staffing.
LIFE SUPPORTS:
As long as you can continue to build some Life Support in excess capacity to your population growth numbers, you can simply Assemble them on your local OBC. This will help you expand staffing capacity for items operating there. TL for LFS is not initially urgent so don't worry about it too soon.
ORBITING COLONY:
Your home OPC can remain as a Population grower, FOOD producer and MINING center. Remember that the three (3) UNLIMITED deposits on your home planet will be the MAINSTAY or your resource supply for the immediate future and possibly on into the long term.
So what should I do with my OBC? EVERYTHING ELSE!!!!
Manufacture, Assemble and operate ALL:
Laboratories
Factories
Manufacture, Assemble and operate MOST:
Life Supports
Automation
Manufacture, Assemble and operate SOME:
Light Structure
Sensors
Transports
Manufacture EVERYTHING ELSE to be used elsewhere as needed.
PROPER UTILIZATION OF YOUR OBC IS KEY TO WINNING THE GAME!
MINES:
Before you have anything else in large quantities you MUST HAVE HIGH TL MINES!
Higher TL means more resources mined out of those UNLIMITED deposits BECAUSE you can ONLY assemble 1,000,000 MINES maximum on a deposit. Therefor Higher TL means higher output with NO increase in staffing.
With 3,000,000 MINES running on your three (3) unlimited deposits...
TL-1 produces:
12,500,000 FUEL at 50% Yield
10,000,000 METS at 40% Yield
10,000,000 NMTS at 40% Yield
TL-10 produces ten (10) times as much while TL-200 produces:
2,500,000,000 FUEL at 50% Yield
2,000,000,000,METS at 40% Yield
2,000,000,000 NMTS at 40% Yield
Now it will take some doing to get to TL-200 but if any item is worth that effort it is MINES!
FACTORIES:
Once you have the Mine TL you must be able to build them. Higher TL Factories will be needed for the same reason...economy of scale. Put those newer high TL facory groups on the OBC and let them rip. You should only need 23 Factory Groups since there are only that many Items to manufacture. An exception is if you intentionally want to build lower TL Items for some reason (paranoid that the enemy will capture those items and use them for prototypes).
Issue orders to Build Change all of your factory Groups to whatever item at TL-200. This will automatically cause the factories to start building the highest TL for each respective Item Type as you continue to do research improvements.
Build more factories and Mines first then add to the menu as capacities increase. When new higher TL stuff comes out in large quantities then Disassemble and SCRAP the lower TL stuff and Assemble the newer high TL stuff. This goes especially for Laboratories, Mines and Factories.
TRANSPORTS AND BEAMERS:
These will be needed to haul resources to your OBC.
Transports are need specifically where ships are concerned or where establishment of new colonies and surveys are performed. Beamers can be used to transfer GOODS (no population) between any Colonies in the same system. Transports may also be used to haul Soldiers and Military Robots to and from Combat.
Farms-1 can only be assembled and operated in Open Colonies (on habitable planets of course). Each one produces 25 FOOD per turn and these are your backbone for FOOD supply initially. They are limited to 100,000 Farms-1 per Habitability Factor so your initial home planet with Hab=25 can only operate 2,500,000 Farms-1. This limits FOOD production to 62,500,000 FOOD per turn. Each population consumes .25 FOOD per turn so the capacity is 250,000,000 population (unless you reduce the ration rate - DON'T).
Since the Habitability Factor of the home planet is 25 and each Hab Factor can support (you would need Life Supports in all but Open Colonies) 10,000,000 population...the capacities are the same. This means you had better find a way to put population elsewhere and that will required FEEDING them (as well as Life Support).
You can put Farms-2 through Farms-5 on your COLONIES within orbits 1 through 5 and they will use sunlight and if in the orbiters they will also use SOLAR POWER for their FUEL requirements (orbits 1 through 5 only). Typically they are used on Orbiters (OBC's) and in Enclosed Surface Colonies (ESC's).
Farms-6 are the lowest TL Farms you can operate on a ship so YOU NEED THEM SOON! They use artificial light and require FUEL and/or POWER plus staffing but NO sunlight as the lower TL Farms do.
Since Farms-2 and higher TL produce 5 x TL FOOD, you lose some efficiency until you get to Farms-6 anyway. Go for Farms-6 and put them in your OBC's and Ships ASAP. Farms-6 running in your OBC's in the inner orbits (1-5) are the best deal and with Automation use only a minimum of Professionals for staffing.
LIFE SUPPORTS:
As long as you can continue to build some Life Support in excess capacity to your population growth numbers, you can simply Assemble them on your local OBC. This will help you expand staffing capacity for items operating there. TL for LFS is not initially urgent so don't worry about it too soon.
ORBITING COLONY:
Your home OPC can remain as a Population grower, FOOD producer and MINING center. Remember that the three (3) UNLIMITED deposits on your home planet will be the MAINSTAY or your resource supply for the immediate future and possibly on into the long term.
So what should I do with my OBC? EVERYTHING ELSE!!!!
Manufacture, Assemble and operate ALL:
Laboratories
Factories
Manufacture, Assemble and operate MOST:
Life Supports
Automation
Manufacture, Assemble and operate SOME:
Light Structure
Sensors
Transports
Manufacture EVERYTHING ELSE to be used elsewhere as needed.
PROPER UTILIZATION OF YOUR OBC IS KEY TO WINNING THE GAME!
MINES:
Before you have anything else in large quantities you MUST HAVE HIGH TL MINES!
Higher TL means more resources mined out of those UNLIMITED deposits BECAUSE you can ONLY assemble 1,000,000 MINES maximum on a deposit. Therefor Higher TL means higher output with NO increase in staffing.
With 3,000,000 MINES running on your three (3) unlimited deposits...
TL-1 produces:
12,500,000 FUEL at 50% Yield
10,000,000 METS at 40% Yield
10,000,000 NMTS at 40% Yield
TL-10 produces ten (10) times as much while TL-200 produces:
2,500,000,000 FUEL at 50% Yield
2,000,000,000,METS at 40% Yield
2,000,000,000 NMTS at 40% Yield
Now it will take some doing to get to TL-200 but if any item is worth that effort it is MINES!
FACTORIES:
Once you have the Mine TL you must be able to build them. Higher TL Factories will be needed for the same reason...economy of scale. Put those newer high TL facory groups on the OBC and let them rip. You should only need 23 Factory Groups since there are only that many Items to manufacture. An exception is if you intentionally want to build lower TL Items for some reason (paranoid that the enemy will capture those items and use them for prototypes).
Issue orders to Build Change all of your factory Groups to whatever item at TL-200. This will automatically cause the factories to start building the highest TL for each respective Item Type as you continue to do research improvements.
Build more factories and Mines first then add to the menu as capacities increase. When new higher TL stuff comes out in large quantities then Disassemble and SCRAP the lower TL stuff and Assemble the newer high TL stuff. This goes especially for Laboratories, Mines and Factories.
TRANSPORTS AND BEAMERS:
These will be needed to haul resources to your OBC.
Transports are need specifically where ships are concerned or where establishment of new colonies and surveys are performed. Beamers can be used to transfer GOODS (no population) between any Colonies in the same system. Transports may also be used to haul Soldiers and Military Robots to and from Combat.