Planet Value, Value Improvment and Resource Generation

RasterOps · Last edited by RasterOps on Wed Feb 26, 2014 4:49 pm; edited 1 time in total

Never mind. Rechecked math, Planet Value is being properly applied.

Mod: BM 119i

I just did a calculation of all maintenance costs on one of my planets. I included the costs of all cargo and satellites and factored in the Societal Malus/Bonus. What I found was my Mineral Miner facility was producing its full amount; an amount that was not factoring in any planetary value.

Example data...

Planet Value:
Minerals: 10%
Organics: 50%
Radioactives: 100%

Mineral Miner:
Level 1, generates 2000 minerals.

Now I thought the Planet Values were multipliers of the amount a facility could produce, e.g. The above Mineral Miner facility would produce 10% of 2000 per turn or 200 minerals.

<strike>Is my understanding of how planet values affect production facilities correct?</strike>
<del>If a planet's value is not used then what purpose do Planet Value Improvement facilities provide?</del>
How are maintenance costs calculated?

Skyburn · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 12, 2008

Planet value does work. You can see the gross resource generation on the colonies report screen.

Maintenance costs are a set percentage of vehicle design. I don't recall BM's offhand, but in Skymod it's 10% of build cost for ships and bases. This amount is then subject to modifiers in game, cultural achivements and racial traits etc. All maintenance modifiers stack.

RasterOps · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 4:36 pm Post subject:

You're right, my math was wrong and I may have initially missed production increases for happiness and amount of population. Gonna edit the OP.