Colonization - What Are Hubs For?

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
Has anybody figured out the use for building a Hub facility? I don't understand their value.
  • They offer no landing pads. No services.
  • Large Settlements generally offer equivalent or better system improvement points.
  • Large Settlements require much less commodities to build. Faster, easier.
  • Large Settlements reward Two Tier 3 points. Hubs only reward One Tier 3 point.
  • Most Hubs have prerequisite facilities. Settlements (except tourism) don't.
  • Some Hubs give very little gain. Especially Aegle, Telus, Io seem like a complete waste of effort.

I am basing my knowledge from this Handy Spreadsheet
 

vicwarrior

vicwarrior
Refinery hubs are the only source of refinery system influence.
Why is that? Because they didn't even do a basic balance pass of colonisation features? Because they didn't even sanity check the stats of landing pads on most settlements/hubs, gameplay?

Your guess is as good as mine, but yes, i can see several buildings being largely useless
 

Ydiss

Ydiss
Archvillain said:
They may enable local Horizons ground scan missions?
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I'm going to place the one that (I think) is the one you can get MEFs from easily. I'm guessing as their images for what you're selecting can be sketchy, at best. But it does look like it. Having my own source for MEFs on occasion, rather than needing to travel to Lung every time, would be neat.

What also confuses me, is it seems one or two of the settlement options (not installations) look like they're EDH, not EDO. I'll be honest, I'd be miffed if I went to place an EDO settlement and it turned out to be one of those dinky little EDH hubs as I'm not a huge fan of the "game play" they offer (besides providing MEFs easily, which still isn't game play tbh).
 
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