Is there any reason to choose 'nothing'?

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This has probably been asked before. At any rate, here's my question: in the planetary build queues for military and social production, is there any benefit at all to choosing 'nothing'? I've played around with it a little, and it seems like if you're not building anything, you're just wasting your money because it gets spent anyway. It seems to me that, if you have a planet not building anything on the military queue, one of three things should happen:

1. Your military spending should go down.

2. Your unused military production should be re-allocated to other planets' military queues, thus speeding military production elsewhere.

3. That planet's military production points should be put towards its social production, possibly at a slight penalty.

As it is, I don't see any of these things happening, though I might just be missing it. Personally, I'd like to see the third option used. That way, you could have a planet be specifically militarily- or socially-oriented fairly easy. If you want a given planet to pump out ships more often, nix the social projects on that planet and you get a few extra production points.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
For better or worse, it can be better to choose nothing for the social queue as eventually anything you build will require maintenance while not really changing your situation.

OTOH, for the military queue, this is why everyone builds constructors ad nauseam.

I think that changing this "wasted resource problem" would actually open up a lot more strategy variation without adding to the micromanagement of the game at all.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
CodMonkey answered perfectly : no benefits from not building anything except the maintenace.

And there are several suggestions made how to change this but nothing os moving :-(

Most people seem to agree that you should gain back a part of the resources. I personally like the way MOO2 does it : you can specialise differently on each planet.

Wait and see.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
The one benefit I noticed if I switched my military queues across the board to nothing (or for that matter switch my spending to nothing for military) is that I get a bit a speed boost out of the game on the larger maps. I've yet to figure out why this behaves as such, but it is something I noticed.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Actually I see it as a bug. When I choose nothing, it should say nothing in the field for that the next time I view that Planet. This way I don't have to scroll through the list again to see if I should be building something. If it kept the Nothing there, I would know I already scrolled through the list and decided there was nothing I wanted to build at the time. It would be a big time saver while playing the big games.