The buildings screen will look like this (navigation frame removed):






Now what do all these buildings do...well, you could always click the big question mark at the bottom right corner of the screen to get a quick explanation. I'll put it in simple terms:

Civilian Residences: Provides housing for the resource Population.
Military Barracks: Provides housing for your military.
Solar Power Plants: Provides the resource Power.
Military Training Sites: With 10% of your land in MTS, the cost of your military units is reduced by 30%.
Special Op Centers: Produces Special Ops, used to gather information on other planets and steal/destroy resources.
Planetary Mines: Provides the resource Money.

I'll get back to what the different resources do later on. Right now let's just follow the suggestions from the Newbie Guide in the Game Help section on what buildings to build:

Civilian Residences: 10% - 15%
Military Barracks: 30% - 35% (always calculate how many you need)
Solar/Fusion Power Plants: 15% - 20% (never risk running out of power)
Military Training Sites: 10% - 12% (try to keep 10%)
Special Op Centers: 10% - 15%
Planetary/Lunar Mines: 15% - 20%

Those are how the figures should be when the game gets going. The initial build should be somewhat different, because buildings like Military Training Sites and Military Barracks aren't needed in the given quantities this early. Why? Well...you won't build any military until later in newbie mode ;)

Here's a suggestion for an initial build:

Civilian Residence 42
Military Barracks 0
Solar Power Plants 0
Military Training Sites 0
Special Op Centers 42
Planetary Mines 266

Notice the numbers are all divisible by 14 - this is done on purpose, as the building time of each building is 14 hours. This means, if you build 1 building it will take 14 hours to complete - if you build 14 buildings, 1 will be completed every hour for 14 hours. So building in stacks of 14 is much more time efficient :)

Also remember this is just the initial build. More buildings will have to be built as the game goes on. Military Training Sites and Barracks will have to be built before you start making military.

This brings us to the next topic - the military screen.


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