Posted by: nuclearslurpee
« on: October 07, 2023, 10:21:29 AM »Like Rince Wind, I usually have standard freighters in fleets of 5. That makes transporting most things pretty easily considered in either groups of 5 or multiple trips of that group of 5 (the obvious exception is the Force Labor stuff and Terraforming Installations), but most folks use terraforming stations (as they're more pop efficient) and Forced Labor is a bit of a niche installation type.
Terraforming installations are being further reduced to 50k (2 holds) in 2.2 due to frequent issues with rounding 1/3 of an installation.
Additionally, ground installations are now (since 2.0, I think, but maybe 2.1?) much cheaper than orbital ones at a cost of 300 BP vs. 500 BP, so both kinds of terraformers see use now. Ground-based is cheaper if you have population to work them (not counting cost of infrastructure, but past a certain point you usually have some available anyways), but orbital don't require population and can be built out of shipyards if you don't want to devote planetary industry to building terraformers.