I just finished a transcend game where I built a Super Science City(SSC) and I was a bit amazed at how much science was comming out of that city!
The city was 26 pop with half of them transcends, 12 crawlers crawling 7 energy each. It had all standard research facilities pluss the SPs: SC, ToE, NetBackbone.
Setting the slider to 100% labs to check out how much research it produced:
211 labs + 3043 bonus = 3254 research
For comparison my next best research city with the same pop and just normal facilities brought in:
88 labs + 350 bonus = 438 research.
Most of my 'normal' bases produced around 300 research under these settings.
Basically, the SSC produced as much research as the rest of my empire of 10 or so cities.
And this city wasn't even optimized for it, it didn't have merchant exchange and could have crawled in a lot more energy.
Seems like a SSC is a pretty good investment to me. Allthough the net effect of SC and ToE should be 4x research, the extra crawled energy makes it way more than 4 bases research output. What do you guys think? Good investment or not?
The city was 26 pop with half of them transcends, 12 crawlers crawling 7 energy each. It had all standard research facilities pluss the SPs: SC, ToE, NetBackbone.
Setting the slider to 100% labs to check out how much research it produced:
211 labs + 3043 bonus = 3254 research
For comparison my next best research city with the same pop and just normal facilities brought in:
88 labs + 350 bonus = 438 research.
Most of my 'normal' bases produced around 300 research under these settings.
Basically, the SSC produced as much research as the rest of my empire of 10 or so cities.
And this city wasn't even optimized for it, it didn't have merchant exchange and could have crawled in a lot more energy.
Seems like a SSC is a pretty good investment to me. Allthough the net effect of SC and ToE should be 4x research, the extra crawled energy makes it way more than 4 bases research output. What do you guys think? Good investment or not?
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