Yeah the weak links have obliterated the commodities I listed.
Possibly two things going on here:
This is still just a hypothesis, but a pattern like this is possible for your main outpost if your water planet is terraformable:
| Agriculture | 1.4 | |
| 1 | Override (Water world) | |
| 0.4 | Terraformable | |
| -0.4 | Tidally locked | |
| 0.4 | T1 Strong link from 2nd outpost | |
| Tourism | 2.2 | |
| 1 | Override (Water world) | |
| 0.4 | Orbiting a water world | |
| 0.4 | Orbiting a body with geologicals | |
| 0.4 | T1 Strong link from 2nd outpost |
It seems we're throwing material sacrifices into the volcanoes. I was hoping that the influences from planets, stars and similar attributes would be on the supply side only, but it seems demand is included as well.
Ind and HT consume a lot of each other's "generic" outputs, but they also produce a lot of outputs for other economies, which should be unaffected. Should have similar demand for most products to either single-type economy of the same size.
A station which supplies everything and demands nothing isn't all that useful either - you couldn't trade into it or get good cargo-based missions from it.
Good to know. More specifically for the Ind and HT economy, will the stuff you need for colonisation supplies from either be eaten?
It's not so much the weak links, but rather the large terraforming influence - a fairly useless economy type that produces practically nothing while consuming a bunch of stuff, from both the refinery and agriculture primaries.
Yes, probably quite a few. Evacuation Shelter and Computer Components I think are very likely to go and then there's a whole bunch of the others which are more likely than not to stay exported individually but you probably won't keep all of them at once.
Polymers, Semiconductors and Superconductors are consumed by Terraforming specifically.
Right… so a chance that I might not get them on such a build* but it could potentially be overcome if the economy is strong enough (planet has 5 build slots where I could put hubs down plus a second planet with another 5 slots, though I’ll likely add planetary ports to one or both at some point). Thanks. [I care little for the gold and silver to trade with]
I would check the demand for the goods that you want to have in supply, build one refinery and then check the demand again. That should give you some indication if it's possible to overcome the non-refinery influences with the slots you have available on your planet.
Well first I’ve got to finish the primary Coriolis station of that system. Why not an outpost, because planet 1 only has that single orbital slot designated for the primary. And it would be actually more hauling to start an outpost, build two T1 structures and then add the Coriolis, too.
Same thing here, though all in separate systems. One of them has an Orbis (a system I plan to build up as a "large" one over a longer period so started it with a T3, and which I probably should get the Panther Clipper II for... maybe not with ARX though), the other two outposts. Annoyingly it's the Orbis which is not producing fruit and vegetables thanks to the tourism economy application, but not much I can do there for now.
I still think features should simply be a bonus to certain economy types rather than a flat addition. Having volcanism on a planet should give like a .5x bonus to each of Extraction, Industry, and Refinery. That way if you just want refinery and only build refinery hubs, the planetary features still matter (which I think is a good mechanic in theory) but in a way you want them to.
That's kind of what I am suggesting but more of "If X is present, only X of the planetary XYZ features" triggers, instead of continuing to have industrial and extraction present with a bunch of refinery hubs placed. This would also allow ice planet systems to still be used for refineries if it is desired or needed by the player.
I think my hopes lie with a t8 now. So just use the economy specific outposts with population and development elsewhere in the system to get a good supply. Then a refinery in a different system, just focused on it.
