Recovering installations from ruins

[CharonJr (OP)]

I am certain this has worked before, but with some ruins that have been explored (TL1, 145 installations) there are no attempts to recover anything despite 3 construction units on site.

Might this be due to me having combat dropped them?

[Bremen]

Shouldn't matter, I don't think. Are you sure they're construction units and not combat engineers?

[Erik L]

I'm a bit fuzzy on this, but don't you need some sort of archaeological team to decipher the ruins first?

Derp, you said they have been explored already. Nevermind me.

[MarcAFK]

It could be but I'll test this myself later, sympathies for the disappointing quality of your find, I found some TL2 but only 80 installations .
Not too helpful a since I've started with default which is around TL4 with 1000ish installation, But I'll be very happy if I get some research or terraforming installations. Hell a fuel cache would be awesome at this point too.

[CharonJr (OP)]

Continued playing and after about 1 month the first result came in. After this it took another couple of weeks till another team reported in.

I was under the impression that there is a check for anything happening once per week, but maybe this was due to my construction commanders having decent xeno skill. My current commanders have 15%-25% which is not that bad actually, but maybe the RNG just hates me or I misremember the report frequence from earlier games.

And yes, the quality is a bit disappointing, playing a small pirate empire here and started with 500k tech .

[SteelChicken]

It happens pretty slowly.  You have to be patient.

[xeryon]

It happens pretty slowly.  You have to be patient.

Especially with only 3 construction brigades working on it.  Early game that is sufficient but as the game progresses it can be beneficial to up that number to 10-20

[calem]

Yeah its really quite slow.   Anecdotal evidence suggests its slowerin 6. 4x using construction brigades than it used to be in 5. 5. 4 with the engineers.

3 units is about the minimum I will commit to these ruins now, anything less and it can takes many years to salvage the site.   With 5 or 6 construction brigades i start to see simultaneous recoveries.

Even then. . . its slow.   I found a pair of ruins 1 and 2 jumps from Sol in my latest game, one TL3, the other TL4.   By the time I had designed and constructed a large-scale troop transporter and actually get teams into place to exploit these ruins I was already entering TL5 and the ruins were able to provide nothing more useful than mines/factories.

[CharonJr (OP)]

Yup, building 4 additional const.brigs at the moment and brought a 4th in, but I had to train a bunch of boarding troops first. Sadly those are unused since the only aliens found till now were spoilers.

Recovering some labs would be nice since there is a 90% propulsion anomaly at the planet.