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These are generally a waste of resources to build, except at the very beginning of the game or for a base in a particularly resource-poor area. Make a former instead, and use it to build a farm, a mine, and a solar panel. This will produce a much greater payoff in a much shorter time. Plus you'll have the former afterward to use for other things. | These are generally a waste of resources to build, except at the very beginning of the game or for a base in a particularly resource-poor area. Make a former instead, and use it to build a farm, a mine, and a solar panel. This will produce a much greater payoff in a much shorter time. Plus you'll have the former afterward to use for other things. | ||
[Recycling Tanks are not an alternative to Formers, but complement them. At the beginning of the game unless you have nutrient resources no square can produce more than two food so your food grows at a maximum of two per turn. Recycling Tanks add an extra food boosting by 50% your city growth rate. For a city producing five resources and five energy per turn a the recycling tanks represent a 20% boost in productivity, 25% if you lose a mineral to an extra unit. At the beginning of the game they should be your first facility, or second after rec commons if you are playing at high level and have a big empire. Since city growth is per city, not global, they asre even worthwhile later in the game] | |||
==Research Hospital== | ==Research Hospital== | ||
