What happens to unused build slots?

*bump* I would love an answer to this too.

I would also like to know.

Your loose it.


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I never waste military spending. If I have enough ships to defend my stars and carry out any attacks that I need, I make my planets build constructors because constructors are always useful.

And to reduce waste on social, I keep social spending down until my governor list is long enough that I don't have to worry about it running out.

Sorry I should have said how to prevent lost. In addition watch the maintenance cost of what you build, military and social, as they become fixed costs.

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Similar questions, which may boil down to one question in reality.

First, does each planet have a seperate military and social manufuacturing capacity, or is there a single pool which the total combined can't excede?

If it's pooled and I'm budgetting twice the money on military than I am on social, and I have a planet that has nothing in the military queue, will that planet cap out at 1/3 it's manufacturing ability, or will it use all the manufacturing ability it has for the social queue, assuming funding is available?

Next question, if I'm spending enough to run my social production at 50%, but I'm only building things in half my queues (by production capacity), will I get peak production out of those queues, or am I wasting half my money and getting 50% production out of the queues that have something in them?

I'm just trying to get my mind around this, as I tend to suffer economically unless I orient my entire game around the economy. I don't know how people can be leasing colony ships and staying afloat, I usually have a net surplus of 20bc, and never over 60bc, and that's without taking any leases.

Well, I run constant deficit of 150-250 bc / turn and make up the diff by selling stuff to minors or other majors. I suspect I need to build my population up, or get more income.

I'd like an answer too about the "What happens to the money for unused build slots? If for example I'm devoting 100 bc a turn to military spending but not building any military units do I get that 100 bc back or is it just wasted?"

Is what Louis-guy reid said correct, that you "loose(sic) it"? So if I don't have something in a slot, the money is spent anyway? Sorry for being dense, but this seems counter-intuitive.

I have heard before the "money" is lost. To me, this is a major issue needing fixing. At the very least, a percentage of the lost spending could be automatically converted to cash. This idea that you must put something in the queue or the resources simply disappear just doesn't make sense.

sometimes if you ahve built ships that carry a maintenance cost associated with them, even when you slide you spending rations to 0 (which seems to me to be indicative of deisposable spending) there will still be costs, just like if a ship is destroyed you still have to pay the lease on it (if you bought it)

rich


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