Best Planet starting build queue?

[Orion03]

Hi guys,

Do you use the automatic Planet Economic Management? Or do you use the manual planet management?

If you do a manual planet management, do you have a starting build queue that works well?

Thanks

[TheFlemishDuck]

Automatic planet management works pretty effecient, no need to micromanage. I do however specify what resources to mine first at mining colony's often. Another exception i make is with research planets because of orbitals, i usually don't have too many research planets to micromanage so it's not too much of a hassle. The problem with research planets is that they will do away with all factory's in favour of more research centers but once you can build orbitals it would take such a planet more than a 100 years to build one withought any factory's so if i want to have research orbitals i need to micromanage my research planets.
And last there is production planets which i often micromanage depend on needs for poppulation (given orbital shipyards need 10K peeps) and needs for getting ships online or adding some mining tt prioritize early on.

[freifrei]

For non-ocean\earth planets with production slots <15 I order mines first and set governor to Agricultural (even before getting the hydroponics tech).

For ocean\earth planets: Initiatives Extra-bonus project, Augmented Work Day, order 3 factories. Disable initiatives upon finishing. Order one orbital shipyard. Turn on auto governor if you want after that.

If you want to exploit, you can go full micro on earth planets - finish building first 3 factories, order max number of factories, order max number of Orbital Shipyards, remove factories from the build queue. You can destroy remaining 3 factories once you got 2-3 shipyards ready. Can do the same with research, but you need 5 Research Centers instead of 3.

[Orion03]

Is the Orbital shipyards production is only one used for building ships?

Thanks for the comments so far guys.

[Firefox440]

By default you can not get orbital shipyards without factories. The orbital shipyards build and repair ships, satellites, stations, fighters. Remember, they repair if the planet is not building other units.