Re: Galaxy help needed

From: desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)

Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 18:55:13 +0000

Schreuder SA <saschreu@cs.vu.nl> writes:
>>  2) Produce as much capital somewhere else as there is room for
>>     industry on the planet, and ship it all over.
>>
>>  3) Produce as much materials somewhere else as there is room for
>>     industry on the planet, and ship it to the planet, which then
>>     produces capital from it.

> Ok, But you still need to produce the Capital from the MAT on the
> planet. With Plan 2, that planet is able to research, which is done
> without resources!

Sure.  If the other circumstances are identical, then you do about as
well to have a source planet producing capital and shipping it to the
destination which produces research, or to have a source planet
producing materials and shipping it to the destination which produces
capital.  The source planet can invest its savings from not having to
produce capital in approximately the same amount of research that the
destination planet would have produced.

The main advantage of Plan 3 over Plan 2 then comes from the fact that
shipping MAT is usually cheaper than shipping CAP.  You usually have to
ship CAP from your developed core planets to your outer colonies.
Whereas often you can find an outlying planet with high resources which
can produce enough MAT to supply its neighbor.  Thus you don't have to
ship the MAT nearly as far.

> HINT: Use the low-resources planets to research!

Of course.  Once it has grown to its maximum size then you are going to
do this in any case.

David desJardins

References

Re: Galaxy help needed
saschreu@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA)
Fri, 15 Jan 1993 13:12:16 +0000
Re: Galaxy help needed
saschreu@cs.vu.nl (Schreuder SA)
Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:50:30 +0000
Re: Galaxy help needed
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Wed, 13 Jan 1993 21:39:55 +0000