I'm just curious what everyone here considered worthy to them. I know some have lower requirements and some have higher. I know some who will gladly colonize a large very abundant, and some who wont take less than a very large ultra rich.

For me:
At least
avg: mega rich
large: extremely rich
v.large: very rich
massive: rich
(I'd also consider a small planet if it was like 4x mega rich or something.)


So what is it for you?

My standards

Artifact Planets:
Large+: Extremely Abundant+
Average: Rich+
Small: Very Rich+

Mining Planets:
Average+: Rich+
Small: Extremely Rich+

Research:
Very Large+: Extremely Abundant+
Large: Rich

My Standards...

Artifact:
Very Large+
Very Rich+
or
Small+
1x Mega Rich+

Mining:
Very Large+
15x-16x Mega Rich
(Toxics)

Research:
Colossal
15x-17x Mega Rich
(Plasmas)

Artifact:
Makes 250+ aph
I won't defend anything that makes less than 240 that I currently own.

Mining:
Has arts I can use on my artifact planet

Research:
Has arts I can use on my artifact planet

If you want to learn from another players mistakes then learn from me. When I was knew I was basically in a n00b legion and I had no idea about prisnors and other nice things to strengthen your ship, so to me back then artifacts were not important and thus I went after mining and research early on and with crappy planets as well lol. Then I joined old Roo with the bunny and a level 7 base that was given around 60k artifacts per day, I was like woot now I can concentrate even more on research and mining and not worry about artifacts. As I got to know Joe and some of the other big players a bit such as AbsolutelyNothing,tree and later shedevil I then realized my huge mistake and started to immediately go through my planets and see what I could do to improve my art production. At this point it was around 2k and I was ranked around 300-400 (really sad of course). I then went and did a scan run then started colonizing any planet artifact planet that would give me 150 arts an hr or more+ I went over all my planets on improving what was on them especially the art planets and I jumped to 5k in just hrs. I did this for 6 months and eventually upped my requirement to 175 or more.
The biggest problem with this is my invasion costs now are outrageous and at 29b per planet. I make 29k per hr in minerals and I make 24k per hr in research that i also sell and I can easly pay for 8 quasi guns and anything I have on my ship; however I can not keep up with winning 5 planets a week, bricking them for 1 week them temp fluxing them and rebuilding them. I had to lower my guns to thetas and I had to spend a few days upping my mining that was around 25k before and even at 29k its still not enough. My art production with the bonus's is at 40k( I am not as active as other players ). I have worked on getting rid of my research planets since Research is worthless once u finish the 1s level of Hyper Logistics and besides I get plenty of scientists from artifacts.
I also do not defend any planet producing 200 or less to get max production from the planet, but I only lose maybe 1 crap planet per yr:(.
In any case do not make the same mistake that I did. Make your requirements no less then 200 an hr min, do not sit wasting so much to defend a decent planet to where you only make 150 an hr when it should be making 200-275 and make your requirements for research a lot higher and mining somewheres in middle. I do not even bother with research planets at all nor will I and most big players do not even bother with mining planets anymore either.

I think tree told me his invasion cost was around 12b and he is 75% bigger then I am and I am paying 29b per invasion cost because of my mistakes when I was smaller.

Fluffy I seen someone starting to take a planet from you that was producing around 220 and you started to defend it+ use arts to make it invulnerable, soo:P

It had zero defense on it; saving a planet from being lost while under attack is completely different.

Artifact
Large: 3X or better
Very Large: 2x or better

Mining
17-18x Massive + Irradiated, ideally with good artifacts
I'll take them periodically, but will often skip them if alerted.

Research
Only if loaded with fabulous artifacts

Stuff that will make me break the above guidelines
GP structures, especially holiday storage vaults
Permanent Planet effects
Meta-tuned jammer/Litheor Core Tunnels
+24 structures
Colossal or Mega Colossal non-plasma planets
Anything piled up with great artifacts
Good project planets

I don't take anything smaller then very large period.

Minimum for each production
artifact: mega rich
mining: 16xmega rich
research: 88xresearch nothing less, i have 3 research planets lol

certain planets I will take because of artifacts on them, all depends.

So... if you saw an unocc with 0 scans large 7x mega rich arti terra, you wouldnt take it and go pure production?

Me: (Artifact Mainly)
Small : 1x Mega
Average: Ultra
Large: Ext Rich
Very Large: Very Rich
VM Rich gases,
Massive or VM Arti is Ext Abundant

Is that Eighty-Eight?
......how?

Kronyn Data Cubes.

So... if you saw an unocc with 0 scans large 7x mega rich arti terra, you wouldnt take it and go pure production?

I would alert it for a legion mate.

average/rich for all. they are sparse enough for me atm.

Research
VM rich+

Arts
VL rich+

Mine
VL ER+

And I get crap for scan runs, explains why I have 33 slots free and 8-14k production for the three resources ;_;

i lost a very large mega rich arti today and didnt care... i think im jaded

VL ER arti undefended

mining, make my own 15x toxics.
research, get enough scientists from arti

mining. maxed toxics
research vm gas va+ with 0 scans
artifact
vl va+
large r+
avarage vr+
small megarich+