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[Akura]

I'm working towards an Embassy right now, just need another university level, so far it's fun, but i don't get the plot number, it says i have 12 left while i clearly have more than twice that number of emty pieces of land

It's not how many spaces are on the planet, it's just how many you're allowed to build on. Check a planet in the Starmap, it'll tell you how many plots you can build on(Size).
I think every planet simply uses the same grid.


EDIT: I have a Trade Ministry, but I cannot build any Dories. What gives?

[Bluerobin]

EDIT: I have a Trade Ministry, but I cannot build any Dories. What gives?

Do you have space in your Space Port?

Also, yeah I didn't realize, but apparently you need an embassy to accept an alliance invitation too. 3 hours left on the upgrade to level 8 so I can invite 2 more people.

[Akura]

I just upgraded my Spaceport, and now I can't even build probes(at the Shipyard) anymore.
It says 3 docks available, but no build options



EDITBEFOREPOST: Huh, might just be not having the resources on hand to build it.

[Farseer]

Yeah, if you can't see it, you don't have the resources.

Learned this with colony ships.

[Farseer]

Instead of Malcud farms, I'd highly suggest Algae Croppers. They give you a boost in both electricity and food (in fact, I'd say you could PROBABLY destroy an energy plant or two if you had them), so they're pretty damn useful. Nevermind the fact that they give you more food than Malcud farms do.

I've only kept one of my Malcud farms for purposes of the happiness bonus multiple food types gets you.

[Detrevni|inverteD]

My only complaint about the algae croppers is they seem to give off a lot of extra waste compared to other food sources.

EDIT: Oh wait, no they don't I'm thinking of something else.

[Rex_Nex]

Waste is amazing. Get a recycler and all the sudden all that waste is any resource is your choice.

Also, many missions and some buildings need waste to be build.

You can also drop waste on anyone's world to cause unhappyness.

Edit: Thanks for the invite. Ill build an embassy once my university is done upgrading.

[Tilla]

Working on replacing my water Purification Plants with Production Plants now one at a time. If it goes well I should have enough happiness tommorow to get a colony going.

[Akura]

Yeah, definitely do that. I've already replaced the 5 or 6 Purification Plants with two Production Plants, and producing over 700/hr.

I've gotten my waste production down to 4/hr(unfortunately, the waste storage is full). Malcud farms reduce waste, and are needed for burger production. I'm not sure what Denton Root Farms are good for, maybe some secondary food production.


By the way, does trading require Essentia? It looks like it's currency for trades(you put something up for sale, and set an asking price in Essentia). There's something called "stash" trading for alliances, but I'm not exactly sure how it works.

[Bluerobin]

Yeah, the algae croppers are nice, but Malcud farms will reduce waste slightly instead of producing it, which can be good to offset some other buildings. It's not really enough to be hugely significant (I have a waste power plant and something that converts waste to ore and they do the vast majority of my waste consumption) but it can be nice. The recycler's nice, but it takes a really long time...

I don't think you need essentia to trade in an alliance. Not sure, but I don't think so.

Edit:

Spoiler: Alliance info from the wiki (click to show/hide)

Alliance Benefits

Once you're a member of an alliance you get a couple cool things. First, you can email all your allies by typing @ally into the "To" field in the in-game email system. Second, you can passively use all the probe data of your allies.  This means you will see the bodies in a star system an ally has probed if you happen upon it on the star map, but there is no direct way to get a list of your allies' probed stars.

Spoiler: Stash info from the wiki (click to show/hide)

Stash: The stash can hold a total of 500k resources for the entire alliance.  Any member with an embassy may donate as much and as often as they like up to this total limit on the stash size.  In addition, each level of a member's embassy allows 1 stash exchange per day, and 10,000 more resources per exchange.  This exchange limit is planet-specific for each embassy, so having a high level embassy on every colony allows for free and instant exchanging of resources.  For instance having a level 10 embassy on every planet allows for the possible exchange of up to 1 million resources between any two planets in your empire at no cost and no travel time. (Example: Planet 1 does a 100k exchange of resources that Planet 2 would like for resources already in the stash.  Planet 2 then does an exchange for the 100k of resources added by Planet 1 putting back in resources helpful to Planet 1. Repeat 9 more times.)

[Farseer]

Bluerobin, why in the name of hell would you want to get RID of waste? :p

[Empty]

Yeah. At later higher university level you can turn waste into happiness by building waste monuments.

[Bluerobin]

I kind of needed to because my recycler was so slow. Now that it's more under control I won't be upgrading the waste consuming stuff for a while.

[Akura]

Construction processes generate enough trash.

And if you need to dump garbage on someone or convert it into delicious ore, you can always just buy it.
I'll sell/stash all of mine if you want .

[Bluerobin]

I could actually use some now if you have extra you can stick in the stash. I'll take up to 10k probably. I went into negative waste production and now my people are annoyed that they're out of jobs because I have no waste to make into power/ore.