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ORIGINAL: elliotg

Colonized worlds usually extract resources at a rate of 10 units per second. Worlds with less than 1 billion population are slightly slower, but never less than 6 units per second.

It's not normally necessary to use extractor components for colonies, though you can do that if you wish.

ORIGINAL: Aures

ORIGINAL: elliotg

Colonized worlds usually extract resources at a rate of 10 units per second. Worlds with less than 1 billion population are slightly slower, but never less than 6 units per second.

It's not normally necessary to use extractor components for colonies, though you can do that if you wish.

I have tested this in several builds and I have never seen additional resource extraction at colonies with bases/space ports that have extraction components. In earlier builds I ran some pretty exhaustive tests (eg detailed enough to confirm that extraction rates at colonies depends on population in the way you describe) but in the latest ROTS build in response to this thread I built a space port with 30 mining engines/luxury resource extractors at a colony and confirmed it makes no difference to resource extraction rates. I always assumed this was intentional, if extractor components are supposed to work at colonies then something needs to be changed in the code.

While we are on the subject of resources at colonies, what purpose do cargo bays serve at bases built at colonies? Any base built at a colony has all the colonies cargo listed in the cargo tab for the base so the cargo bays look like they don't do anything. I think one is required for cargo transfer to work properly but I can't see what purpose additional cargo bays serve. I have been stripping the extra cargo bays off my space ports for a while now with no adverse effects that I can see.