Maximizing Planets
There are ways to maximize your planets' production. Here are some of the ways. You don't HAVE to do these to have good planets but they will help.
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General
1) Colonize the best planet (terra, barren, desert) you can in terms of size and resources.
2) Maximize its size with Quasi-Spacial expanders to get it to very massive.
3) Maximize its resources using Planetary Data Optimizers and Terraforming Devices.
4) Use device (Gaia Seed, Planetary Sentox, Gamma Crystallizes) respectively.
5) You will be able to get a 17x resource, colossal planet.
6) Maximize your passive defense/cloak via artifacts.
Mega-Colossal
1) Colonize the best planet icy planet you can in terms of resources. If it is Very Large in size, move on to step 2. If the planet is Large or smaller, find a different planet or keep following step 2 until you make it Very Massive.
2) Maximize its' size with 2 Quasi-Spacial expanders to get it to Very Massive in size.
3) Use a Permafrost Sub-Network (if available).
4) Maximize its resources using Planetary Data Optimizers and Terraforming Devices (Note: this step can be completed both before and after step 5. If you have a Mass Surface Melter and have completed both steps 2 and 3, then use it).
5) Use a Mass Surface Melter artifact. (Note: you will NOT be able to build a Permafrost Sub-Network after you use a Mass Surface Melter, so build one BEFORE you complete this step).
6) Use a Quantum Hydro-Meliorator (if available).
7) Maximize your passive defense with Gravitic Amplifier artifacts and your passive cloaking with Interspacial Fold Generator artifacts. Both of these artifacts are dropped by rank 310 Lazuli Fabrication Plant NPC's.
Mega-Hyper Exotic
1) Make sure you have an assimilation locus*.
2) Invade an Icy planet, preferably with a Permafrost Sub-Network or a Volcanic planet with a Convoy Heat Seeker. Alternatively, use a planet that has rings, moons or ruins*.
3) Guard the planet, use the assimilation locus, use the hyper-terraformer.
4) Increase artifact production to 20x using enumeration crystals or Trellith Resequencer.
- If you don't use a planet that has been attacked, you can use a Galactic Concorde station which will give you a +1 mining/+1 artifact over using it on an invaded planet.
You now have an 13x all massive exotic planet getting a bonus +2 mining, +1 research or a bonus +3 mining (depending on if you went Icy or Volcanic).
You can use two more terraformers to get it to 15x all and one Quasi-Spacial Expander to make it Very Massive.
From real life experience, the VM 15x Mining/Research, 20x Artifacts all will give you at least +40 mining, +63 artifact, +44 research. This gives you over 2,500 resources per hour from one planet. This can be boosted a little more if you invaded the planet and used an assimilation locus. (These weren't available when I made mine and I don't have every artifact building so you can get even more out of it).
Rift
Toxic to 16x/15x/15x using terraformers/data optimizers/race abilities Mining to 20x using 4 Trellith Resequencer Artifacts to 20x using 5 Trellith Resequencer or Enumeration Crystals Research to 26x using 5 Trellith Resequencer followed by 6 Data Cubes Irradiator to bring the whole planet to 22,22,28 Rift it to 37x, 37x, 43x.
Personally, I wouldn't waste the Trellith Resequencers for that and would just go for a toxic at 16/20/15, then irradiate, then rift. Use the cubes if you want, its less important to save them then the Trellith Resequencers.
Toxic/Irradiated
1) Colonize a Very Large Toxic planet that is Average, Very Abundant, Rich or Extremely Rich.
2) Use Toxic Purifiers to get to 16x Mega Rich Mining. (If you're on odd-numbered multipliers like 1x, 3x, 5x, etc... use one terraformer to get to even numbers BEFORE getting to 15x, so you can make a 16x.)
3) Maximize your passive defense/cloak via artifacts.
4) Maximize the planet's size with quasi-spacial expanders.
5) Once you have a 16x Mega-Rich Mining Toxic planet with max'd passive defense and cloak and size, you can go a step further by turning it into an 18x Mega-Rich Irradiated planet with an Isolytic Irradiator from the Potent Residuum mission.