Colony management

Colonies are the method in which players interact with planets via Planetary Interaction. Colonies are established by procuring a Command Center the same type as the planet, and landing it on the planet. Doing so will allow you to build other buildings, and link them together for the purpose of mining the raw resources of the planet and producing goods from them.

Types of Colonies

Strip Mines

First Tier Production

Second Tier Production

Third Tier Production

Building Types

Building Type	CPU	Power	Storage	Cost (isk)
Basic Command Center	1007+	5373+	50	0
Limited Command Center	6616+	8322+	50	0
Standard Command Center	12002+	11121+	50	0
Improved Command Center	17530+	13995+	50	0
Advanced Command Center	23057+	16868+	50	0
Elite Command Center	28037+	19368+	50	0
Extractor	100	800	0	150000
Basic Industrial Facility	100	800	0	225000
Advanced Industrial Facility	300	600	0	450000
High Tech Production Plant	900	400	0	900000
Storage Facility	300	600	10000	600000
Launchpad	1600	600	10000	1125000
Link	10	5	0	0

In addition to the base rate to build a link, it also costs 0.15 cpu and power per kilometer. Here is a handy table to help estimate:

Link Distance (km)	CPU (tf)	Power (MW)
2.5	11	6
10	12	7
20	14	9
50	18	13
100	26	21
200	41	36
500	81	86
1000	156	161
2000	310	305
5000	761	756
40000	6005	6000

Detailed Information

Command Center

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• The modular design of this administrative structure allows it to be deployed piecemeal from orbit, then manually assembled on the surface by MTACs and engineering personnel. Supported by self-regulating pylons that follow the contours of indigenous terrain, the facility can accommodate almost any severity of incline or other non-critical geological hazard. Once active, it serves as both a central command post to coordinate the activity of all other nodes and a basic transportation site for getting commodities off world using standard, vertically launched rockets.

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Extractor

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• Modular biomass cultivators have been the mainstay of low-cost micro-agriculture for centuries. As a result, these facilities have proliferated across many planetary settlements. These adaptable micro-ponds allow communities to alter their cultivators to take advantage of local environments, benefitting optimally from the unique bacterial makeup of local water supplies. Although traditional farming methods remain competitive on terrestrial planets, the production of micro-organisms is most efficient when handled by a custom biomass cultivator.

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Basic Industrial Facility

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• Populated almost entire by robotic laborers, mass production facilities excel at creating products in bulk with minimal supervision and maintenance. They can be so self-sufficient that rumors abound of Gallente factories operated entirely by androids and governed by a skeleton crew of drones. (Detractors of this method like to note that Sansha facilities work in much the same fashion.) Either way, the results are irrefutable: Raw materials and components go in one end, and polished commodities come out the other side.

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Advanced Industrial Facility

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• Populated almost entire by robotic laborers, mass production facilities excel at creating products in bulk with minimal supervision and maintenance. They can be so self-sufficient that rumors abound of Gallente factories operated entirely by androids and governed by a skeleton crew of drones. (Detractors of this method like to note that Sansha facilities work in much the same fashion.) Either way, the results are irrefutable: Raw materials and components go in one end, and polished commodities come out the other side.

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High Tech Production Plant

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• Populated almost entire by robotic laborers, mass production facilities excel at creating products in bulk with minimal supervision and maintenance. They can be so self-sufficient that rumors abound of Gallente factories operated entirely by androids and governed by a skeleton crew of drones. (Detractors of this method like to note that Sansha facilities work in much the same fashion.) Either way, the results are irrefutable: Raw materials and components go in one end, and polished commodities come out the other side.

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Storage Facility

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• Terrestrial storage units require a great amount of technology to be reliable and effective. The super structure is made from adaptive materials designed to withstand a wide range of extreme weather conditions, as temperate planets tend to experience more pronounced seasonal changes. Likewise, each module of the structure is designed to store different states of matter, further compounding preservation and containment concerns.

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Launchpad

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• The terrestrial spaceport is able to send and receive payloads from orbit. Because of the relatively calm atmospheric conditions of most terrestrial planets, the primary focus of this facility is on interfacing effectively with adjacent facilities, allowing for passengers and commodities to be easily organized, scanned, and transported to the appropriate areas. The obvious importance of a centralized spaceport often leads to its becoming a focal point of local culture, including trade, entertainment, and even illegal activities.

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Link

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Level	Logistic Capacity	CPU (tf)	Power (MW)	Cost (isk)
0	10000	0.15/km	0.15/km	0
1	15000	0.39/km (0.15 * 2.63)	0.34/km (0.15 * 2.28)	0

Colony Layouts

Post effective colony layouts here, with classification as to its goal, and, if possible, a cropped picture of the colony layout.

When designing the layouts, note that PINs in the arms can be linked together and only 1 link sent back to the main colony rather than needing to directly link to the destination PIN (eg having a bunch of extractors off away from the command center can be linked one to another, and then only one link goes to the command centre).

Also mention the trade-offs between building a link back to your main colony or eating the import/export taxes, CPU/power costs of a launchpad, and lack of automation if you have an isolated sub-colony over on the other side of a very large planet. This is of particular note for a pure mining colony where the export charge was a planned "sunk" cost that you have to pay either way.

• Barren Planet Strip Mining Colony

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This is a highsec Barren Planet. There are 18 extractors, 4 processors, 1 command center. 99.35% power grid usage. 5 extractors are for the 2 less abundant resources and 4 extractors are for the 2 more abundant resources. The extractors for a specific resources are separated from each other to reduce depletion of resources but they are group with 1 of each of the other resources to reduce the amount of links required. The extractor clusters are placed where resources overlap. All extractors route resources directly to processors, which are located next to the command center. The placement of extractors and links were designed so that all resources could reach processors without exceeding waypoint maximums. The processed materials are sent to Command Center for storage until they can be removed from planet. When surveying extractors, they are submitted one clusters at a time to stagger cycles by 1 minute. This is done to reduce any possible overflow of processors.