Where's your omega research center ? It would nicely fit over the VR center...

Ok, how'd you squeeze all of those economy starbases together like that, guys????

Was that with 100% spending on research as well?

lol

Good work.

That is awesome Mumblefratz.  I wanted to see what the real pros like you could get. I would have liked to got a better PQ planet to do it with, but during the colony rush that was actually one of my better planets at the time. I did get one PQ 26 but was in a bad way, stuck in a corner with no bonuses. I didn't have research far enough for Omega research yet. My research spending is bout 60% in the pic, because I had just started building meduims so 35% was to military.
By this time though I'm making 10,000+bc per turn(70 planets, some still developing)so I'm buying most my improvements. I'm liking 1.4 The moral buildings are a lot more useful, no more researching straight to stock exchanges and blowing off the moral buildings.

I did get one PQ 26 but was in a bad way, stuck in a corner with no bonuses.

Actually this is the planet that you want. Unless by in a corner you mean the corner of the map and you can't get the SB's all around it. A PQ26 will upgrade to a PQ32 on going neutral, or after you get all the terraforming techs. And the corner position in a sector ensures you get the 16 SB's covering the planet. The 20 SB's you got is a nice bonus but it's rare to find a suitable planet in the precise position. Also this doesn't quite make up for the low PQ, but the precursor mine is a nice touch.

I wanted to see what the real pros like you could get.

Ah shucks. I'm really not a real pro, but I do know folks that are (Magnumaniac). Actually, 90% of the battle is simply knowing that a certain thing can be done. Once you see something like this you'll have no trouble replicating it.

One thing is, the better the planet the more expensive it is to run. Notice the 1600 bc deficit it takes to support such a planet. Also, this isn't necessary to win a game and it can be quite tedious to set up, but it can also be fun to do. Many games I don't really find a suitable planet so don't bother with it.

The final caveat emptor is you can build a monster like this and *still* be out researched by the suicidal AI. This can be very disconcerting, but you can usually out research the suicidal AI in a limited area such as beating them to Doom Ray for example. This is usually sufficient to ensure a win.

Heh..actually that is what happened. Best I could of got was 8 SBs on it.

That's what I do as well with high PQ planets that I can't do anything else useful with.

Actually, it's a bit unfortunate. If you get shorted during the colony rush for whatever reason you can compensate with econ SB's for research and military production, but there's no corresponding thing you can do to boost income. Someone in some thread back suggested a "population" starbase, and I though it would be a good idea for this very reason.

That's the ticket. If this was a better PQ you'd could be in the neighborhood of 16,000 RP's. That would have to be a record!

WTG guys

"Now lets go do the Mumble.... Everyone do the Mumble"

That test planet may become 100b if I get over the 25b hump. I've never gotten one of those before

I've never had one either, as a econ capital a planet like that with 19B can bring in around 3000 bc per week maybe more, I have one like this in my current game but I'm still using it for ship production. I doubt it would get close to that income with 100B, you'd just need way too many VRC's, but getting 100B on a planet just to be able to say that you've done it would be worthwhile.

"Now lets go do the Mumble.... Everyone do the Mumble"

That's just my emperor (it's an inside joke), he's a good guy but he's just recently discovered color, or at least it seems that way since all his recent posts are using them extensively. However, his color sense seems inspired by Stevie Wonder (just joking, plus no offense to Stevie)   
BTW That was a particularily bad choice of color to try to quote.

You're Right Mumblefratz. It took me 12 VRCs to get over the hump. I'm at 54B now, but I'll have to get rid of more stock exchanges to get any higher. It's only making bout 850bc now, so it's not really worth it. Fun going for it, so I may go ahead and get the hundred and take a pic just so I can say I did   . Oh yea, almost forgot the 12 VRCs is only holding morale at 46%, just enough to keep growing. I also have four fully upgraded morale mining bases. Between 19b and 25b the morale just plummets tremendously.

btw: I'm color blind, so it don't look bad to me Drengin.  

I definately will post a pic. I'm having to get rid of the stock exchanges to make room for more farms. I have advanced farms, but I gotta have more of them. I have been ferrying people in cause the natural growth is only bout a hundred thousand or so a turn. I won't be able to play any more till probably after work tomorrow, so I won't get it tonight. Wish work would stop getting in the way of my GCII time.