Duplicate Space ports

[Emperor Zodd]

Is the AI instructed not to build a space port and supply depots if they already exist in the same system?

[This message has been edited by Emperor Zodd (edited 17 January 2001).]

[Mephisto]

Yes. It won't build them again if one is already there.

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Is the AI instructed not to build a space port and supply depots if they already exist in the same system?

[This message has been edited by Emperor Zodd (edited 17 January 2001).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Emperor Zodd]

Thanks

[DirectorTsaarx]

Well, except for the starting planets. If you start with multiple planets, the game will put a spaceport, resupply depot, and spaceyard on each one, even if they're all in the same system.

BTW - there's no reason you can't put multiple resupply depots in a system (other than needing the facility space for resource generation, etc.); if I have colonies at opposite ends of a "crossroads" system, sometimes I'll do this. Get a few extra movement points out of those exploration ships by putting a resupply depot at the planet nearest each warp point...

[dmm]

One might also want multiple space ports in a system, just in case one of them gets destroyed during an attack. (That's an idea from someone else's old post.)