Newbie question: Empire vs planetary economy

[Viki17]

Can someone, please, explain to me the impact of the planetary economy on the game?

I am NB to Stellaris (although I am familiar with other Paradox games) and I am trying to understand the economy model in the game.

I am doing all right on the empire level and I am having a surplus of all basic resources.

Nevertheless, when I establish a new colony there is a challenge to develop it without local resource issues. Some colony is initially short on food, some on minerals. Does this shortage has any impact on the colony development? Does the local deficiency of resources impact anything at all? Maybe the stability of the planet? Does the colony grow slower if there is no local food (but I have a surplus globally)?

I was looking in the Stellaris wiki and I didn't find an answer to this.

Thank you.

 

[Alfray Stryke]

Local resource deficits won't harm a colony, things like amenities on the other hand will.

 

[Viki17]

So it makes sense to make some suitable planet, for example, an agricultural world to support other planets that will focus on mining or industry?

 

[Alfray Stryke]

So it makes sense to make some suitable planet, for example, an agricultural world to support other planets that will focus on mining or industry?

Absolutely!

 

[Silens]

So it makes sense to make some suitable planet, for example, an agricultural world to support other planets that will focus on mining or industry?

This is the way to go. You live off of specialization bonuses from planet designations, special buildings that give bonus production for certain jobs and you can increase it even more with the right governor traits.

 

[fusei]

Your local planetary economy is pretty much everything I put in the green rectangle:

 

[Methone]

Your local planetary economy is pretty much everything I put in the green rectangle:

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Um. Sir. Sir what the hell how do you have 2k amenities.

Sir please you're scaring me.

 

[fusei]

Um. Sir. Sir what the hell how do you have 2k amenities.

Sir please you're scaring me.

Good Sir, I'm glad you're asking, may I interest you in one of our high end resorts for our high end employees? I hear Azure Chalice is wonderful this time of the year or maybe Farix if you prefer the ocean or any of our other 280 resorts?

 

[MagnusDux]

Um. Sir. Sir what the hell how do you have 2k amenities.

Sir please you're scaring me.

You don't need that many amenities however, if you hover over you can see how many you need for your pops and if you have twice that they get +20% happiness.

 

[Peter34]

1. Stuff that can be stockpiled generally is empire-wide, not local. Stuff that can't be stockpiled is usually local, such as Amenities, Happiness, Housing, Stability.

2. It's fairly normal to start out just building whatever-your-empire-currently-needs on your first colonies. That's fine. As long as we're only talking about Districts, and about tier-1 Buildings, then it's very cheap to re-do later, gradually Replacing more and more Districts and Buildings so that your original colonies become more and more specialists. All it costs is Minerals, which ideally you'll have in abundance (don't look at me for this one - I suck at having a good Mineral income, but that's just me being bad at one part of the game). It's only when you upgrade a Building to tier-2 or tier-3 that you're sort of making a genuine commitment, because those cost Strategic Resources (Crystals, Motes, Gases) to upgrade. You usually only want to do that if it's part of the planet's planned specialization, or if it's a kind of Building that you'll want one or a few of on all your planets, which usually meant Temple, or Bureaucrat Building (if you're Byzantine) or a Cyto Clinic.

3b. The reason you want to end up with specialized planets in the mid-game is synergies. Most resources have a synergy Building, like the Energy Nexus or the Research Institute, and on top of that there is the Planet Designation which gives a benefit of some sort (greater output, or greater efficiency in the form of less input materials required), and thirdly in some cases you can also put a Governor in case of the Sector the planet is in, with a relevant Trait such as +Research (good for a Sector that has a Relic world in it) or +Unity (if you're not doing "distributed Unity" as either a Spiritualist or Byzantine), or rather less cool a +Food Governor.

In theory, you can also specialize your planets further by building Robotic POPs with relevant Traits, or genemodding your living POPs to have relevant Traits (like +Minerals or +Unity), but in practice that's a lot of hassle. I never do it, and I don't think anybody else does either. All my POPs might be Intelligent (or Erudite) or have Traditional, or have the +Minerals Trait, depending on what I've chosen to play as, but I do not specialize POP Traits on a planet-to-planet basis.

 

[Methone]

Good Sir, I'm glad you're asking, may I interest you in one of our high end resorts for our high end employees? I hear Azure Chalice is wonderful this time of the year or maybe Farix if you prefer the ocean or any of our other 280 resorts?

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I have seen the face of God. And he, too, feared his creation.

 

[Koopatin]

This is the way to go. You live off of specialization bonuses from planet designations, special buildings that give bonus production for certain jobs and you can increase it even more with the right governor traits.

This is the way!

(sry.. i had too)