This table is based on a new colony totally dedicated to production with +4 buildings. I used large/rich as the base mark, and figures around that are in yellow. Above are in green and below are in red. It only goes up to mega rich, as it is unlikely you will be taking anything higher than this, although not impossible. Based on this, any planet producing less than 72 with +4 is not worth defending.

That's really useful. Thanks.

nice table, good work.

I know its probably alot of work. Can you do these tables for structures +8 and above please?

if I'm reading this all right then only 6 of these planets are "worth defending"...and while I agree with that theory for everything very massive and smaller, I would have to disagree in the fact that ANY colossal and mega Colossal planets; they normally take a LOT to create and never appear naturally(except in a dyson). They should always be defended because of their size.

are you factoring in basic plantetary artifacts as well? we should assume every planet has 2(phase cutter, spy uplink, space elevator) 2(combination of processing, refining, and research) and 1 warp gate, so essintially every planet+5 production -5 space.

and yea your other stats on your planet do matter, but i do like the chart . maybe some other non-lazy mathy guy can make the 8-10-12 chart for the higher level players

No you arent reading it right, anything yellow or green is worth defending, yellow is just the "minimum defendable planets" everything green is in the HELL YEA DEFEND IT category

it really depends on how low someone's standards are

It's basically intended as a colonization guide. I chose +4 because most people have them.



No, as it was intended to be a base minimum.



Totally agree. Generally speaking you wont find a colossal/mega colossal less than rich, so it doesn't matter too much.



From what I've heard, the generally accepted standard is large/rich, which came out at 36, and so 35-37 are marked in yellow.

Some of it depends on the resource, too. I'm less picky about artifact planets than others. Also depends on what you're planning to do with the world. If you're going to buff it (Lab Pods, Toxic Purifiers, Race abilities), all that matters is size. Find the biggest toxic you can and load it up to 16X - where you started from, resources-wise, is almost irrelevant.

i want a tiny X48 mega rich dyson! lol

Yeah, someone built a sphere to capture the energy of a McDonald's heat lamp

nice contribution you rock thunderbolta