Posted by: SpikeTheHobbitMage
« on: May 23, 2020, 06:25:40 PM »Only LG worlds generate LG Infrastructure. It takes a long time to bootstrap from that.I build my colony ships with the same idea - just smaller. Currently I carry 20000 colonists for 20000 tons of cargo (or 8 infrastructure). This is more than enough for col cost 2 worlds and gives leeway for when the civilianpeople traffickerscolony ships start shipping people over.Tell me more about the snowball? What do pops need to build their own infrastructure?
"Slow Growth" colonies that I just send a colony ship at once and then leave to the civilian market are how I want to expand as well. In fact, I want to get to a point where I can leave most of the day-to-day logistics to civilians and focus on military matters.
I don't know the exact numbers, though I'm sure someone will know, but the civilian sector will start shipping free infrastructure to colonized worlds since infrastructure is a trade good. Because of this, I've heard this I've heard of people who leave Luna unterraformed because the civilians will quickly generate free infrastructure for you which you can then steal and send elsewhere.
I don't think civilians make Low Gravity Infrastructure tho.
What I do is move 100 infrastructure and 100k population to Luna to get the civilians going, or 1/10 that if conventional start, and then scrap my colonizer. All other colony seeding is done by moving infrastructure by civilian contracts. In the time it takes to terraform Luna it should have several thousand infrastructure which is enough to seed around a hundred new colonies. By the time that all gets used up, Mercury or Mars should be ready.