To me it doesn't make much sense that a resource can be mined at high efficiency yet also have hefty penalty attached to it, but if it's simply a case of arithmetic I suppose the most profitable planet between various choices shouldn't be hard to figure out.

I'm a bit confused as to what the resources numbers mean on planets. According to the manual the number means the speed at which a resources is mined, The example they give is .50 means a resource is mined at 50% the speed of a resource of 1.0. So it seems the higher number the better? That I unders...

I played again and my orbital shipyard still disappeared, with no enemies nearby. Perhaps when I set the planet policy to "Innovation" it decided to demolish my shipyard? Apart from invisible pirates I can see no other explanation!

I've been playing this for a couple of days now getting to grips with it. So far I've found it quite easy to get into, except for one problem I've had every single time. My orbital shipyard always seems to disappear. I searched online but nobody seems to have mentioned it. The closest clue I got was...