It supposedly generates 2$ per person on planets… Do Asteroids count as planets for this purpose?
Is Adaptive Taxation worthless in a system that only has asteroids
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Endless Space groups the varying planet types into different groups. By default, only Class 1 Planets will be colonizable, and you unlock the ability to colonize planets in the higher tiers as you move down the tech tree.
By contrast, terraforming unlocks in the reverse order, so, as mentioned, you probably won't have favorable terraforming projects available until late game. Generally though, you have to move up in class if you want a net positive in FIDS - otherwise you're either losing them, or swapping Science and Industry, etc.
You can only have one exploit per planet, so I've listed them separately, as some planet types get increased benefit from multiple exploit types.
Category 1 Planets (11 Base FIDS)
Terran
Base: 3/2/4/2
Tier 3 Exploits: 3/0/1/0
Food:
- +2 Epigenetic Crop Seeding
Dust:
- +1 Xenotourism Agencies
Total: 5/2/5/2 + Exploit
Ocean
Base: 3/2/2/4
Tier 3 Exploits: 2/0/0/2
Food:
- +2 Epigenetic Crop Seeding
Dust:
- +1 Xenotourism Agencies
Total: 5/2/3/4 + Exploit
Jungle
Base: 3/4/2/2
Tier 3 Exploits: 2/2/0/0
Food:
- +2 Epigenetic Crop Seeding
Dust:
- +1 Xenotourism Agencies
Total: 5/4/3/2 + Exploit
Category 2 Planets (10 Base Fids / -5 Approval)
Arid
Base: 2/2/5/1
Tier 3 Exploits: 1/0/3/0
Food:
- +1 Sustainable Farms
- +1 Epigenetic Crop Seeding
Industry:
- +1 Heavy Isotope Refining
Dust:
- +1 Xenotourism Agencies
Science:
- +1 Optics Research Lab
Total: 4/3/6/2 + Exploit
Tundra
Base: 2/1/2/5
Tier 3 Exploits: 1/2/0/0
Food:
- +1 Sustainable Farms
- +1 Epigenetic Crop Seeding
Industry:
- +1 Heavy Isotope Refining
- +1 Interplanetary Transport Network
Dust:
- +1 Xenotourism Agencies
Total: 4/3/3/5 + Exploit
Category 3 Planets (7 Base FIDS / -10 Approval)
Arctic
Base: 1/0/1/5
Tier 3 Exploits: 0/0/0/2
Food:
- +1 Sustainable Farms
- +1 Epigenetic Crop Seeding
Industry:
- +1 Heavy Isotope Refining
Science:
- +1 Non-Baryonic Collider
Total: 3/1/1/6 + Exploit
Desert
Base: 1/5/0/1
Tier 3 Exploits: 0/0/2/0
Food:
- +1 Sustainable Farms
- +1 Epigenetic Crop Seeding
Industry:
- +1 Heavy Isotope Refining
- +1 Interplanetary Transport Network
Science:
- +1 Optics Research Lab
Total: 3/7/0/2 + Exploit
Category 4 Planets (5 Base FIDS / -15 Approval)
Barren
Base: 0/1/4/0
Tier 3 Exploits: 0/0/0/3
Food:
- +2 Wasteless Supply Chain
Industry: Dust: Science:
- +2 Non-Baryonic Collider
- +2 Optics Research Lab
Total: 2/1/1/4 + Exploit
Lava
Base: 0/4/1/0
Tier 3 Exploits: 0/3/0/0
Food:
- +2 Wasteless Supply Chain
Industry:
- +2 Interplanetary Transport Network
Science:
- +2 Optics Research Lab
Total: 2/6/1/2 + Exploit
Category 5 Planets (12 Base FIDS / -20 Approval / Cannot Terraform)
Gas Methane
Base: 0/10/1/1
Tier 3 Exploits: 0/1/0/0
Food:
- +1 Wasteless Supply Chain
Science:
- +1 Optics Research Lab
Total: 1/10/1/2 + Exploit
Gas Helium
Base: 0/1/1/10
Tier 3 Exploits: 0/0/0/1
Food:
- +1 Wasteless Supply Chain
Total: 1/1/1/10
Gas Hydrogen
Base: 0/1/10/1
Tier 3 Exploits: 0/0/1/0
Food:
- +1 Wasteless Supply Chain
Science:
- +1 Optics Research Lab
Total: 1/1/10/2
Asteroid Belt
Base: 0/4/4/4
Tier 3 Exploits: 0/0/0/0
Food:
- +1 Wasteless Supply Chain
Industry:
- +1 Interplanetary Transport Network
Total: 1/5/4/4 + Exploit
Terraform priorities will come in a bit.
If you have another tech in the queue, it will begin research on the next one. It is quite possible, if you have enough research, to get two (or even three!) research items done in a single turn.
In the event that no other technology has been added to the queue, then, yes, the extra research is lost.
Best Answer
Everything counts as a "planet"; perhaps a better name would have been "outpost" or "colony", except those are already technical terms for systems involving Influence and Approval.
Additionally, these bonuses stack, so if a bonus is +2 of a resource on planets and +1 on, say, arid, any person on an arid planet would be worth +3, which is why planetary exploitation is an important choice.