The materials are cheap enough, and 20% is just a ridiculous amount of labor to get outside people to help build.
Maybe that's the goal? You're supposed to build alone.
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Maybe that's the goal? You're supposed to build alone.
Tell that to AXI or Fleetcom who have crazy, ambitious colonization projects and small armies of commanders (& FCs) to get it done.
I don't really understand the purpose of their plans. But I'm glad for them that they're interested in this game.
I will build only one station to give it a name and anchor it forever in the galaxy.
Trailblazer Promise is out of Steel. Again. It's also out of Liquid Oxygen this time. Yes, I'm going to keep reporting it so the people needing the feedback know it's still happening regularly.
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There are tens of stations with thousands of tons of steel within 100ly of that, some of them having even millions of steel.
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Trailblazers's ships are only needed for small-quantity goods. All those steel/titanium/CMM/oxygen/etc are much faster can be collected from normal stations.
Hi @Ian Doncaster
Sorry to ask but can you please elaborate on which construction-type is classed as a 'refinery'. From all the builds I can see in the architect screen the only refinery per-se is as a Hub (so only available as a surface build and non-landable after construction) - is this what you are referring to?. I can also see nothing that can be build in orbit around a planet that is labelled as a refinery-type so unsure what to build.
I already have Ag, hi-tech and industrial builds producing machinery and hi-tech but would love to be able to make (i.e. refine) metals. I have a HMC landable planet with pristine reserves - what do you recommend I construct so I have a market for metals to help with further system(s) expansion supplies?
Ta in advance (I'm always impressed by your game mechanics knowledge).
Cmdr B.
That's correct.
So what you need to do in this situation is use the Hub's "economy influence" property which converts other major stations on or around the same body into refineries.
- build a Colony economy station (Commercial or Civilian outpost are cheapest, a Coriolis ... or Orbis/Ocellus ... is more expensive but gets you more output at the end)
- build a Refinery hub on the planet below (you'll probably need at least two of them, maybe three, to fully convert the station, so you'll want a decent-sized landable planet or a large moon for this)
(Probably don't build anything other than Refinery hubs and Colony-economy ports around this planet/moon or you'll dilute the resulting Refinery output)
Refineries - presumably because they're so useful for self-sufficiency - are by far the hardest thing for new colonies to build - but it can be done.
Hey Ummm, real question why is Institute an "inappropriate" word
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Ah, good old minimal effort regex matching. I had the same problem with Commander "Cassius Lakeside"
So what, should I submit a ticket?Ah, good old minimal effort regex matching. I had the same problem with Commander "Cassius Lakeside"
Kind of reminds me of the scene in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs:
Curly Joe's brother: "You are Buster Scruggs? The West Texas Twit?"
Buster Scruggs: "I assume you meant West Texas , on account of that particular bird's mellifluous warble!"
(Edit: Sigh, can't even quote movies properly.)
Of course it's inappropriate you boob
You could, but I doubt they will change it, they, like many other sites, are worried someone will get offended or worse sue them.
You mean the moon? Are you saying that you can build an oil refinery on any planet or moon that has never seen oil?
You can also place agricultural settlements on icy moons and actually grow stuff.
you even can place mining/industrial installation somewhere in the system in an orbital slot that even doesn´t belong to a GG Ring or Astro-Flied - yet it supplies the Ind-Hub with goods (pre-requ for Ind-Hub - that or a mining facility on surface - somewhere)