"Probably the biggest source of income you'll ever have"
"The same as the Federation HUD"
What are they talking about? The thing that was probably a question mark in most peoples' minds from the first time they read their new TE3000 hud: colonies!
You will be offered a colony if your rank is high enough and you have enough personal ships. The exact amount of personal ships required varies with rank. 25 ships is enough for a Trader or Trade Baron, perhaps, but more is needed for a Broker. I'm told that 80 personal ships will qualify at any point.
The basic concept of a colony is that you invest in it (lots and lots of credits!) It produces income, but also has disasters that you have to pay to stop or research, etc...
Anyone familiar with the old Fed Hud from the traditional Tiny Empires knows the routine. I'll not go into it further, mostly because I'm still trying to get hard numbers on it myself! However, for reference, I'm starting this post as Part 1... a list of your options. This list will be edited as I get more information- feel free to post the offers you have seen in the comments below, or IM or Notecard to me in world!
| Class | Name | Colonist Capacity | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Terrestrial Planetoid Mining asteroid Orbital Laboratory | 2,000 | 437,500 |
| 2 | Advanced Orbital Laboratory Medium Planetoid Large Mining asteroid | 2,500 | 1,417,500 |
| 3 | Iron-Rich Asteroid Orbital Vehicle Small Icy Moon | 3,200 | 3,937,500 |
| 4 | Carbonaceous Asteroid Icy Moon Orbital Spacedock | 4,000 | 8,859,375 |
| 5 | Orbital Base Volcanic Moon Silicate Asteroid | 6,000 | 18,000,000 |
| 6 | Large Volcanic Moon Magnesium Asteroid Advanced Orbital Base | 9,000 | 50,000,000 |
| 7 | Rocky Moon Binary Iron Asteroid Colony Spaceship | 17,000 | 125,000,000 |
| 8 | Advanced Colony Spaceship Plutonic Moon Iron Asteroid Field | 30,000 | 225,000,000 |
| 9 | Iron-Nickel Moon Colony Starship Volcanic Dwarf Planet | 50,000 | 393,750,000 |
| 10 | Small Volcanic Planet Advanced Colony Starship Selenic Planet | 125,000 | 484,000,000 |
| 11 | Starbase Xenolith Planet Waterworld Planet | 240,000 | 800,000,000 |
| 12 | Advanced Starbase Telluric Planet Yttric Planet | 430,000 | 1,474,579,000 |
| 13 | Artificial Moon Diamond-core gas giant Blue-Green planet | 800,000 | 4,000,000,000 |
| 14 | Terraformed Binary Planet Interstellar Asteroid Belt Synthetic World | 1,000,000 | 62,500,000,000 |
| 15 | Terraformed Star System Ore-Rich Star System Dyson Sphere | 2,000,000 | 300,000,000,000 |
My, you've been busy. I'm curious if the colony types have different impacts on your development. For instance, when I bought my orbital laboratory the next turn I got two screens stating that my fleet efficiency had improved by 100 cr/ship/month and that my cost to respond to disasters would be reduced. I'm looking forward to more colonies.
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Me, too, and I'm still gathering information on that- anything about what happens AFTER you buy one appreciated... lol
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On Level 5, the option you are missing is the Silicate Asteroid. I took the Volcanic Moon instead, but I just saw that set of options.
ReplyDeleteasteroids are mining facilities and generate mining income every so often, and im on my 3rd coloney now, and got the 100 cred/ship/month bonus on ever one, and after you buy your 3 colonies you can stil get more, but the larger one takes the place of the smaller ones
ReplyDeleteOn class 9, the price is listed as 225mil less than the class 8 at 242mil. Is this a typo?
ReplyDeleteAlso new update on doing Disease Research, once completed after 20x research, you get 200cr/ship increase and prevent further disease in the future.
Kylie, it wasn't a typo, those were actual prices- however, they HAVE changed.
ReplyDeleteAlso, prices at the upper end seem to be changing a bit, I'm not sure exactly what is happening there- do they change, dependent on rank? It's possible.
Thanks for the update on research, the word I get is that they all do the same thing.
Thanks to Steve Fallingbridge and BigBadaBoom Bing for the latest updates on the last two classes of colonies. Steve is maintaining his own version of this list at his site
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