Resource Dock

Resource Dock

Resource Dock

Serves as a system-wide storage for resources. It is an extremely useful structure that can be loaded and unloaded with resources without delay. Therefore, it can be used to transport resources from one planet to another within a system.

In-game Description

An Orbital Resource Dock allows some of a player's resources to be stored in orbit. One dock functions for all planets the player has in the system. This makes it unnecessary to transport resources from planet to planet. Caches don’t influence Resource Docks.

Requirements

In order to build a Resource Dock, Orbital Resource Dock research has to be finished.

No other Buildings are needed to construct a Resource Dock.

Upgrades and Production

#						no bonuses	Module Constructions	Module Constructions, Construction Plant 10	Durability	Capacity
1	2050	1600	2495	1	1	50:00	35:42	17:51	120	1800
2	2620	2050	3195	1	2	1:00:00	42:51	21:25	140	3900
3	3355	2620	4090	1	2	1:12:00	51:25	25:42	170	6500
4	4295	3355	5235	1	2	1:26:20	1:01:40	30:50	210	9600
5	5500	4295	6700	1	3	1:43:40	1:14:02	37:01	250	13200
6	7035	5500	8575	1	3	2:04:20	1:28:48	44:24	300	17600
7	9005	7035	10980	1	4	2:29:20	1:46:40	53:20	360	22800
8	11530	9005	14050	1	5	2:59:10	2:07:58	1:03:59	430	29000
9	14755	11530	17985	1	6	3:35:00	2:33:34	1:16:47	520	36400
10	18890	14755	23020	1	8	4:18:00	3:04:17	1:32:08	620	45300
11	24180	18890	29470	1	10	5:09:40	3:41:11	1:50:35	740	55800
12	30950	24180	37720	2	12	6:11:30	4:25:21	2:12:40	890	68400
13	39615	30950	48280	2	14	7:25:50	5:18:27	2:39:13	1070	83500
14	50705	39615	61800	2	18	8:55:00	6:22:08	3:11:04	1280	101400
15	64905	50705	79100	2	22	10:42:00	7:38:34	3:49:17	1540	122900
16	83075	64905	101250	2	27	12:50:20	9:10:14	4:35:07	1850	148400
17	106340	83075	129600	2	33	15:24:30	11:00:21	5:30:10	2220	179000
18	136115	106340	165890	2	40	18:29:20	13:12:22	6:36:11	2660	215400
19	174225	136115	212335	2	49	22:11:10	15:50:50	7:55:25	3190	258900
20	223005	174225	271790	2	60	1d 02:37:20	19:00:57	9:30:28	3830	310800
Total	1012150	790745	1233560	29	--	6d 11:34:30	4d 15:07:30	2d 07:33:45	--	--

Bonuses

The following Technologies affect the properties in above table:

• Module Constructions +40% to construction speed.
• Multidimensional Space +35% to storehouse capacity.
• New Metamaterials +10% of a storehouse becomes invisible to enemy fleets.
• Composite Constructions +50% to building durability.

Note

When there are multiple Resource Docks in a single system, they are essentially treated as a single, large Resource Dock.

Resourced produced by mines or unloaded by ships are first stored in the Orbital Resource Dock. When that is full, the loot returned by ships goes to the storehouses on the planet in the innermost (lowest-numbered) orbit and resources produced by mines will be stored in storehouses on their own planet. However, when resources are consumed, they are first taken from local storehouses and only when those are empty will they be supplied by the Orbital Resource Dock.

This approach is very good at making resources available as quickly as possible on all planets in the system, but has the downside of using local storehouses very inefficiently; their capacity can go almost unused in some situations. Before starting a new system, decide whether to give each planet its own storage (using the Orbital Resource Dock only to quickly transport resources from planet to planet) or to build big Orbital Resource Docks on two or three planets (and completely skip building local storage).