Starsector Beginner Guide to Colony Management - 0.95.1a-RCC6 

Great guide thanks for sharing... tho I have to say u dont live up to the great name of MR Grumpy lol ... All jokes aside this was really helpful.

_pulls out several [REDACTED] ships piloted by alpha cores_ Yes, I'm listening 👂

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@@johnsomebody3627 😂😂

*by ‘many’, its Catalytic Core and Synchrotron. Nanoforges cause pollution on Habitable Worlds so you might as well also build Heavy Industry on No Atmo planets with the rest of your industry. Other items require Heat/Extreme Heat, a gas giant, Habitable, not Habitable, no volatiles/rare ore + Farmland, no Extreme Weather/Tectonics, and more. Without knowing every requirement in advance or already having the items beforehand its nearly impossible to plan out colonization perfectly. All the items and their requirements can be found on the wiki if one wants to know.

One of my favorite worlds ever was a Toxic world with Common Organics, Abundant Rare Ore, Rich Ore, and Abundant Volatiles. Suffice it to say I slapped an Autonomous Mantle Bore on the planet and it was something else to behold, a single mining industry producing all four mining resources with that glorious +3 to the production of Organics, Ore, and Rare Ore. In the same system was a Low-gravity Jungle world with bountiful farmland and an orbital solar array which I ran with soil nanites. Icing on the cake was a domain-era cryosleeper 2.2 light years away.

Yeah, basically, because of the existance of those special items, if you want to minmax like I do, the main type of planets you'll ultimately want and be looking for are: -Extreme heat and no atmosphere (preferably with plenty ore, too), so to put refining, fuel production, orbital works and a military base all conveniently in one place (or/and mining, too, if there's enough ores to be worth); -Habitable ones either *without* rare ore and volatiles and with plenty farmland, or/and with lots of organics (best if you can fullfill both conditions), so to have somewhere where to produce food and/or domestic and rare commodities (and drugs, too, if you will, *wink wink*) and make tons of cash at (especially if you put up Commerce, too); -Gas giants with plenty volatiles and possibly with the least hazard possible, usually either the 150% ones with only the high gravity condition (though also 175% or even 200% ones are fine), but if you are really lucky, with what I think is the Unknown Skies mod you can get even lower if you can find one with a floating continent condition (also usually not worth much to go for the ones that have the dark and cold, extreme or not, conditions, since what you get from them even at +2 and with the dynamo will usually be either all or almost all eaten up by the orbital lamp, unless you can in some way increase volatiles production even further); -Any non-hab planet with plenty regular and rare ore, best if without atmosphere so that you can also do refining, orbital works, and fuel production all at the same place (and again, like in the first case, and/or military too if it has extreme heat). Also, you can force the extreme heat condition, if you want, if you use an orbital lamp on them (and can provide enough volatiles to make it run full force), though I don't remember if this is doable in vanilla too, so take this with a grain of salt; -Cryovolcanic and ice worlds that have as many ores and volatiles as possible, as in my experience, I've found many of them having plenty of these 3 resources. Can usually slap a lamp on them, too, if you want, as they often are dark and cold, though that usually nullifies volatiles production, but at least in turn gives usually a low haz non-hab world where to mine lots of ores at (seen many cases where they only have dark and cold conditions, and so can bring them to 100%, or even lower if you have the Unknown Skies mod and find one of these with the sub-ice bedrock condition). Also, extra conditions you may be looking for, for these planets: -No extreme weather, and no extreme tectonic activity, so that you can use the fullerene spool too; -Within 10 lyrs of a coronal hypershunt; -Within 10 lyrs of a cryosleeper ship; -Extensive or Vast Ruins, for Tech Mining; -A low hazard rating is always a big plus, obviously, but so is the quantity of resources and accessibility, so gotta always consider and weight these three; -If you have the Industrial Evolution mod, them having either an ancient laboratory, hull deconstructor or a nanoforge is really nice, especially if you can find a lab on a planet without atmosphere due to the boost to fuel and ship components production it gives. Also another awesome one, is if the planet has an orbital artillery station, especially if it's one of those no atmo and extreme heat worlds, making it easily a pretty sweet military planet, and if you find a good lone world with a translocator, then you can move it to somewhere more convenient, such as into a system you may be already in or closer to the core worlds or to your systems; -If you have Unknown Skies, there's a bunch of neat conditions: space accelerators and religious landmarks for accessibility boost, pre-collapse military base and military virus for a nice bonus in military production, the aforementioned floating continent one if you find a good gas giant and accessible sub-ice bedrock for cryo and ice (and also crashed terraforming drone, though I often find this one in unremarkable crappy planets) for lowered hazard rating, the parasitic spores and hallucinogenic fungus (especially the latter as it boosts drug production but lessens stability, but also the former as it forces base planet stability to 5, though lessens production) to nullify drug demand, and if you can find a good magnetic world, then get it, as the defense boost those ones get is pretty nuts (artificial and dust worlds give pretty big defence boosts too, but usually tend to get pretty crappy stats in my experience, and the underground tunnel network condition seems to often spawn at crappy planets too).

@@Tentites Had a very similar experience once, except it was a relatively "low" hazard (150%, only had a toxic atmosphere) toxic world with +2 volatiles, right next to the core systems, and within the 10 lyrs of an hypershunt. Quickly turned it into a fuel production planet with a military base and commerce, and held onto it until the very end of the playthrough. I loved that tiny little planet so much, made it into my de-facto main base of operations.

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thanks, glad it was helpful

I have several guides on ship design. Check out ship building CQC and Midline for good examples. ru-vid.com/group/PLnAw9aB7ShwjzmzPUv9fYoutVVTCoijJX

@@GrumpyThumperGaming .. awesome.. didn't even cross my mind to check.. thanks

It doesn't change much, it just means that your colonies aren't as profitable as they were in the previous release. It's not much of a issue though, they still are very very good sources of credits.

This particular save has a sucky thrinakia with 275 Hazzard, and poor ores... doesn't matter, I just started using it because I have 5 cryothermic cores... and it is hot there... not even gonna put commerce on it... max stability and project power because as it was I was getting losses shipments and I want that over. I was thinking of using another planet which is only regular hot with no atmosphere... but I want to max fleet size... those pirates are going to avoid my area.

I use the mixed setting for age. It has a good balance of worlds, with habitable worlds being somewhat less common.

@@GrumpyThumperGaming Thanks, good to know! I tried old galaxy for my current playthrough. It is alright, but habitable worlds, which are more abundant, aren't necessarily resource rich worlds. Might try new galaxy next time.

In vanilla you have to blow up the base supporting the agents. To find the hidden base, go to the bar of the affected planet and talk to a Pather. They'll sell you its location for $10,000 credits.

Usually mixed, but older tends to have better planets.

A pirate run meaning you can only trade with pirates, correct? I was considering bringing my salvage run to youtube, which would be similar.

@@GrumpyThumperGaming Yeah pretty much so, alongside all the things you'll have to account for when you're pretty much allying with pirates (ie how do you still make ends meat?). And perhaps even discussing what you would have to adjust playstyle-wise since your rep with the core factions may fluctuate or even tank with some of the decisions you can make. I tried going that route a couple times, but since I rely heavily on trading as my main income, I found it rather hard to survive since in the end you pretty much are a scavenger having to fight for your right to exist (even more so than usual).

@@McGuffin56 Don't count smuggling illegal goods (on at least one end of the trip) as trading and money won't be an issue. Black market only trading would be another idea. This would make it challenging since you'd be pretty much always under extreme suspicion in the core worlds.

I agree, I do intend to rerecord them with more concise information.

No atmosphere allows use of Synchrotron Cores to boost fuel. Hot/Extreme Heat allows use of Cryoarithmetic Engine which increases fleet size for that world.

@@GrumpyThumperGaming Ah, alright, thank you :)

The automated core borer artifact produces 3 additional resources in non-habitable planets, making volcanic worlds with size 3 colonies still profitable. In a multi-planet system, the accessibility increase with other colonies nearby allows a larger share of the market.

You're in luck. I just released the 0.96 hostile activity update with a new build guide.

Hope it's answer your question earlier. ;)

@@MisterG_Gaming so I have a new flagship now. XD an afflictor with 3 anti matter blaster. Its so good. I hope they dont nerf it. plus I followed your build with the scarabs and went to a high danger remnant. I brought some capital ships too, It wasnt easy but I can feel the power of your build. THANKS G!!

@@johnpilapil9250 Good choice to pick a phase ship as your main. It's great fun. I plan to use Ziggy and 2 herons instead, dropping my tempest support, sunder and paragon. Does your afflictor have SO?

@@MisterG_Gaming ahH the ziggy. I have a love hate relationship with thats ship XD Its slow as fuck but its so unique and that sound when you press F! nope no SO on afflictor. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a92QNymZ42o.html thats the build i fell in love with :D

@@johnpilapil9250 Pretty good build with phase anchor. Afflictor is a commun ship in the market, not as rare like Hyperion and Scarab, so good for early game. What I dislike on a paragon compare to Ziggy is the beams when you use frigates. AI always want to be in your sight of fire. We will see when I will do the Doritos deadless or not.

No unfortunately it doesn't, but that would be a very nice addition to the game though.

@@GrumpyThumperGaming This doesn't work even if you leave the crew in RESOURCES and not in the storage with guns and enable the use of resources from the storage? It's just that when I take the crew from storage, I pay for it at the end of the month.

Nope, those crew don't count towards colonists, so they don't affect growth rate.

@@GrumpyThumperGaming Using the fact that you are here, can you answer why I often came across the mention that heavy engineering and ship production is best done on uninhabitable worlds? Does it have something to do with the modules that are being built into the manufacturing industry? In fact you should have 1 world with atmosphere and organics (farm, mining, light industry, commerce) 1 non-atmosphere world with rare ore and just ore (mining, processing, heavy industry, orbital ship factories) and 1 gas giant with gas production and fuel production.

Two reasons: 1) You can build the entire chain of production on one colony (mining -> refinery -> heavy industry), significantly reducing upkeep cost. 2) The nanoforges produce pollution on habitable worlds which reduces pop growth rate.

Yes, your planets will trade with each other. If you hover over the icons you'll see that you pay a significant premium for out of faction deliveries, half cost for in faction, and no cost for same planet.

2-4M should be enough

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I recommend these first because you can upgrade them at the same time industry is being built. If you want though, start with industry.

@@GrumpyThumperGaming true, but your colonies aren’t usually targeted at the beginning. Also, the player might not be very rich when establishing their first colony and running defences before having any industry will further drain their money

@@TrollBTDi was attacked almost immediately, just got unlucky with a pirate station I hadnt seen. 😅

@@bigdomkook skill issue