Is one planet policy still viable?

[Shekelnator]

Latest patch with all DLC and im planning to go as DE. is it viable or not?

 

[Badesumofu]

Define viable. Planets are what give you base-growth. You can probably survive against AI regular empires, but you might get stomped by the crisis.

 

[Shekelnator]

Define viable. Planets are what give you base-growth. You can probably survive against AI regular empires, but you might get stomped by the crisis.

viable as i can have good output for resources, alloy, unity, etc etc. months ago i played as it and it was good run even i was about to exterminate awakened empire. but later got wiped out due to war in heaven broke out and i was in the between.

 

[Knotz]

So I've never played one planet like indefinitely so if that's how you wanna play then I can't tell you. If you want to stay on one planet and later on segue over into habitats, gaia worlds and ringworlds then yeah, it's still doable. Especially with the changes to alloys. Take life-seeded, take agrarian idyll so that you can exploit you planet to the max and not bother with city districts so much and make sure you find and defend good chokepoints. Also take consumer benefits so you have less need to build consumer buildings with your precious building slots, which you should be filling with anything that increases raw production. Spam the pop growth decision and build robots, they're a handy supplement to you worker pops especially as your world becomes more specialized with technological advancements.

 

[Shekelnator]

So I've never played one planet like indefinitely so if that's how you wanna play then I can't tell you. If you want to stay on one planet and later on segue over into habitats, gaia worlds and ringworlds then yeah, it's still doable. Especially with the changes to alloys. Take life-seeded, take agrarian idyll so that you can exploit you planet to the max and not bother with city districts so much and make sure you find and defend good chokepoints. Also take consumer benefits so you have less need to build consumer buildings with your precious building slots, which you should be filling with anything that increases raw production. Spam the pop growth decision and build robots, they're a handy supplement to you worker pops especially as your world becomes more specialized with technological advancements.

thanks. but im playing a machine race. so far im doing good. sometimes i have issue with resources but man i do have tons of minerals generated every month. tho energy is giving me a headache i think once i get the ring world i will do much better. it will take time i bet

 

[Nin6]

Life seeded is actually very good up until about 80 or so years. By then you want climate restoration / world shaper, glandular acclimation, habitats ( to swap main planet research buildings), or if materialist you can get robots / droids.

Machines want to expand as quickly as possible, as their growth is limited by replicators. And replicator jobs only become available per Nexus upgrade, or planet unique machine assembly plants.

Ring worlds are good, but similar to ecumenopolis ( or however its spelt ) they will need a strong source of minerals. And one other planet wont cut it. And I doubt you will have the alloys to construct both a matter decompressor as well as a ring world off of one planet.