

Some mods have buffed it to make it competitive, but with vanilla you likely wouldn't be missing much by never building them. Sadly, there are very few cases where refineries are better than building trade ports and using the credits to buy metal and crystal on the black market. However, each individual resource asteroid may have only 3 refineries use it for generating metal/crystal (captureable extractors in uncolonizeable gravity wells support 4, but its rare to find a situation where this actually matters). Refineries generate metal and crystal based on the number of metal and crystal asteroids at the planet its at plus ones withone one phase jump away.

Typically its a bad idea to build more than three refineries in a set of adjacent planets.

This results in a severe Credit expense when relying on the market to correct an imbalanced economy.Īctually even if no one uses the Black Market at all, there will occasionally be market crashes and rises. Sell too much and the price falls sharply and visa-versa, large purchases result in extremely high prices. A market crash is likely a result of an AI player selling off excess resources. The Black Market operates on a simulation of demand and supply. Refineries boost Metal and Crystal outputs. Spectate and watch two sides tear a town apart.Originally posted by dennis.danilov:Trade Posts generate Credits. Not a base building RTS, the game have very detailed towns in most of its maps. Though you can not decide where to place settlements or see much change inside towns. While a turn based game, you wage land battles in real time with entire Armies. As you empire grows you will see increased civilian traffic on both planets and in space (but not on asteroids). You can upgrade planets (including increasing populations), build orbital structures and raise huge fleets. You colonize asteroids and planets in solar systems connected by phase gates. There is also a sandbox mode where you have no enemies and the map never ends, allowing you to build whatever you want, you can also continue after all enemies have been defeated.īasically a RTS with elements of Civ thrown in (no turns though) that can take up to a few days to play if you really want to. VERY large scale, you can zoom in as much as you like along with move the camera around to get a better view.

Supreme Commander + Forged Alliance expansion (standalone, but with securom cd check). YOU are the hand of god himself (quite litterly). You build a city and raise a army, along with a super creature.
