Planet Customization

erm anyone?

Best to specialize. Make your "Ship building planet" with lotsa factories. Your "Research Planet" etc. Seems to be the consesus as the best strategy and has worked very well for myself.

Ok, but then wouldnt their only be one or two planets wher eyou can construct wonders? because the others woul dbe pretty weaksauc eon the production...you would run out of tiles?

Be careful in putting all your eggs in one basket. If the enemy captures your basket. . . .

Tony

I can see it working either way in some situations (random development vs specialization). Some of your worlds will be tiny and are likely best off focused and you will get certain "mini" wonders like tech capital, econ capital, manufacturing capital and it's definitely good to put those on a specialized planet (ideally one with at least one respective bonus tile). The one I can visibly appreciate the most is a manufacturing capital on a planet with lots of factories including at least one on a +prod tile. Yummers! Having a few industrial worlds to crank out ships is a good idea, even though I put shipyards on all my worlds (even the small ones, they're never going to produce much of anything so they may as well build constructors and make themselves semi-useful).

Yes and no. If you're on a tiny or small map... you may have to find a way to put some resarch on your planets while trying to optimize production. Larger maps, when more planets are involved I would resoundingly say yes. It is better to specialize I try and have at least one mega research planet to put the technology capital on. I put manufacture capitral on the planet that has the most military prod. If its building frigates in a few turns lets hope it'll churn out battleships that fast.

Also I 'upgrade' my factorys 1-2 to research labs on my research planets. I send ships over from my production colonies.
It's a dual edge sword. You gotta defend a research world as hard as any other vital planet.

for me, i do a kinda mix, some planets i just have built whatever i need at that time while my industry gets concentrated on a few planets. smaller planets i use economic or reasurch or population and happiness improvements. on most of planets i try to have at least one farm and one happiness structure for increased influence and economy (more ppl more taxes)

Almost forgot. Small PQ planets = research world. Seriously, if you have 3-4 workable tiles after the inital colony one, you'd need a starport and then you'd only have 2-3 factorys. Horrible production.

Personally, I generalize until I am done colonizing planets. Afterwards, I will have the smaller planets slowly build constructors and specialize my larger planets with at least one for each type. Having 3 for production if I manage to get enough, or 2 if one is class 18 or higher. One production will focus on wonders and the other on trade goods for social production, and crank out military craft, and frieghters as needed, to protect my planets.

I specialize the larger worlds and the smaller worlds. Anything that's a 4 or 5 is research, 6-8 is money. At about 14, I start researching. Because of the length of time it takes to build the higher level research buildings, even my research worlds get factories.