Should there be more buildings that add technician/miner jobs?

[The Grumpy Buddha]

Isn't it the whole point that you can't just build stuff that gives minerals? It's exactly the asymmetry of resources that makes 2.2 planets more interesting than before. Before you could just make any planet mining planet, now minerals are an actual resource you can't just get from nothingness (except through market). Minerals are supposed to be acquired only from planets and some other deposits. Building stuff that generates minerals would make them less important economically.
Besides you can always buy them.

I agree completely. Before, it was always 'settle the biggest planet'. Now, with the Admin cost being related to districts, plus minerals being important, that's not the best play.

 

[lief1]

I think there should be 2 buildigs for that;
Reactor: costs mineral and energy upkeep gives two technician jobs.
Astro Mining Bay: habitat building, higher energy upkeep, gives 2 miner jobs.

Though I also think we should get a return of the matter replicator.

 

[Arcvalons]

If minerals and energy were to have buildings again, strategic resources should be required for more things late game to balance it out. Another interesting possibility is that once you have the Terraforming tech, you should be able to add mining/energy/food districts to a planet, though it should cost a lot. Makes sense that if you are able to terraform a planet, you should be able to partially alter it.

 

[Delthor]

Right now you can't properly have mining and energy planets because there's not enough relevant buildings to fill all slots.

You can, actually. Just don't fill up those planets to the point where you have every building slot unlocked. That's not needed for a mining world. Fill out all the mining and/or generator districts, fill the extra building slots with some refineries, and then discourage/ban growth so that all your pop growth from that planet goes to other places where the growth can be more valuable.

I think the limited minerals is a really great thing in the game. Given a certain area, you have a limited number of minerals possible. Some things can be major boosts, like the matter decompressor or machine/hive worlds. But in the end, you gave a hard cap. This means that your economy can only grow so big without expansion or reliance on the market. This leads to more motivation for conflict or direct trade with empires who have more minerals. Buildings that produce minerals would eliminate all of that.

Energy is similarly limited for gestalt, especially machines since they need it for food. Their special worlds help offset the fact that they don't have trade to provide effectively infinite engergy.

 

[Chthon]

Maybe they should rework habitats a bit to fill these niches. Rather than just being a population location, you can now put them in orbit of something that provides resources, and construct buildings to expand on that resource collection.

E.g. 5 mineral deposit mining station with a habitat allows you to construct mining districts that produce 6 minerals per worker (1 + the deposit value)

This would make you prize those high value deposits more as the could be magnified, but low value deposits, like 2, would only give 3 per worker, and 3 would break even.

Once they've done this, if they move habitat construction a rank or two down the tree, it might give them a good place again.

 

[JangoBunBun]

Minerals are the big showstopper. Personally though rather than more buildings producing minerals I would simply prefer a removal of the limit on the extractor megastructure (and also the Dyson sphere, perhaps limiting it to specific types of stars in the process). A bunch of these would guarantee enough resources for all but the most sprawling empires. And it makes sense that an advanced late-game empire could manage to build and maintain them.

You could scale Dyson Sphere cost to star size/class. Larger stars would take more alloy to fully encase, which makes sense.

 

[the glory of plain]

machine and hive world are much simpler
regular regime can only rely on ringworld for massive energy planet

 

[OrigamiPhoenix]

There really should be.
The main reasons why hydroponics farms are balanced is that, besides for their requisite research, they don't give housing, have -2 energy upkeep instead of the farming district's -1, and have otherwise low slot-value.
We already have Commercial Zones that blow up your energy generation as the game goes on.

Minerals are the only thing we're missing and with the insane consumer goods and alloys upkeep... You can get gimped by low mineral systems and planets very easily.
With the requisite research (magma extraction, nuclear fusion/fission, nucleosynthesis, whathaveyou) , a +2 Miner building with a relatively high energy upkeep would balance things out.

 

[klopkr]

I'd just be happy if the amount of districts of each type per planet was a little bit more balanced so I can have a bit more choice in which planets become significant for which resource.

I've been running into a lot of worlds with 3-4 sectors in two resources and almost maxed in the others. It's dull to have to give in and say 'well this is an X world clearly'. Plus sometimes you just get bad RNG and get nothing but one type of resource district on many of your worlds pushing your whole empires focus on that one resource. It makes playing tall harder.

 

[Chthon]

I'd just be happy if the amount of districts of each type per planet was a little bit more balanced so I can have a bit more choice in which planets become significant for which resource.

I've been running into a lot of worlds with 3-4 sectors in two resources and almost maxed in the others. It's dull to have to give in and say 'well this is an X world clearly'. Plus sometimes you just get bad RNG and get nothing but one type of resource district on many of your worlds pushing your whole empires focus on that one resource. It makes playing tall harder.

Lucky you. I just get ones which are 4 in 2 areas, and 3 in the other, with size 20+ >.>