So I start a game, build a survey ship, research a bunch of stuff dealing with production and such, set up a few automated mining colonies and before I know it im either out of sorium of corundium, even though ive got venus transferring corundium and Io transferring fuel. Is there a better way to start out?
Also, my friend was telling about the supply/demand thing that I cant firuge out, how does that work and what's it for
When you say you are "out" of a resource, do you mean
1) that you have mined all of that resource that was available, and there are no more deposits, or
2) that you have used up all of that resource that you had in stock, but you still have some available in deposits?
If #1, then you'll need to find more deposits to mine. If #2, then you can build more mines to harvest more of the resource faster.
As far as the "supply/demand thing" are you referring to civilian contracts? If so, that is managed in the F2 Population and Production screen --> Civilians / Ind Status tab. You need to have more than one colony for that to work, and you need to set up both the supply and the demand for the colonies. For example, if you have colonized Mars, then you could set up a supply contract on Earth, and a demand contract on Mars, for whatever Installation Types you want. This is most often used to ship more Infrastructure than you can haul by your own freighters.
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