One or two REALLY simple Manufacturing questions

Research goes across your empire, it's cumulative. If you have four colonies with 1 lab each, you've got 4 labs total cranking out research.

But if you have 4 colonies with 1 factory each it does NOT mean that when one of those colonies builds say, a ship, that you get 4 factories worth of output. A factory, or other manufacturing resource, only increases the build speed of something being built ON THAT COLONY.

So....if you're not building anything on a colony (a ship, or a planetary improvement, etc) any factories on that colony are doing exactly nothing.

If this is true I can see why people specialize planets for manufacturing.

-MB

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Brillig

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Yes, that's how it works. Although I'd like to point out that you actually never asked a question.

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So what's the question? Looks more like a statement

But yes, factory production is limited to the planet their are built on. Remember though, factory produces a set number of points that are spread between your civic and military production, so if you want to build planetary improvements, it's useful to have a couple factories around.

The one production type that is wide spread is research.

Hope this helps

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you need factories to upgrade whatever buildings you'll put on planets though.

Even those class four planets can fit two labs and they need a factory to upgrade themselves.

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need a factory to upgrade themselves.

Or if you:

A. Are rich enough
Or
B. Dont care

You can simply just buy the factory and have it built overnight.

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I'd be alot more worried if factories accumulated points over all of the worlds..

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Even those class four planets can fit two labs and they need a factory to upgrade themselves.

That is an excellent point, I didn't think about updates/upgrades. So far I only played one very long game on cakewalk and it kinda went nowhere for a long time. I'm trying to get a grip on the basics so I can do much better next time. This forum is a terrific place to hang out and learn things.

-MB

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Even those class four planets can fit two labs and they need a factory to upgrade themselves.

Yea, and then upgrade the factory into something useful. Or, not build a factory because each colony comes with an initial colony let it do the work. I used to start my games with buying a factory first thing, but now i usually buy an entertainment network, and build market centers until I can have spending at 100%. No point having 10 factories on 1 planet if you are running at 10% spending

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