Ore Warehouse

The Ore Warehouse allows you to keep larger amounts of ore on a planet. When the amount of ore on a planet exceeds your storage capacity, your mines will no longer produce ore. By upgrading the Ore Warehouse facility, you can keep your mines producing even longer.

Note: There is no limit to how much of a specific resource you can have on a planet, but once the storage capacity of the appropriate Warehouse is exceeded, no more resources are produced by the mine of that resource. This is the major reason for increasing the storage space. Note that anything sitting on a planet is an open invitation to raiding, and this includes amounts in storage. Further amounts of the resource may be deposited in the planetary coffers by raiding, trading, and transport, and amounts sent off as part of a FRS/harvest are not considered "in warehouse" or on-planet. The solitary other benefit to increased warehouse size is when using the trade merchant, the maximum "incoming" resource is limited by the maximum warehouse capacity for that resource (including anything on-hand). Hence, if you have a level 8 warehouse capable of holding 2,200,000 resources, and 200k of that resource on hand, then the most the trade merchant will allow you to trade "for" is an additional 2,000,000 of that resource. You can trade "from" any amount of resources you have on hand, regardless of warehouse capacities.

Costs and Capacities

The cost for storage tanks double with each level.

The formula for capacity is as follows:

Capacity = 50,000 * [(RoundUp(1.6^Level))+1]

Table

Level	Ore Cost	Capacity	Difference
Start	N/A	100,000	N/A
1	2,000	150,000	50,000
2	4,000	200,000	50,000
3	8,000	300,000	100,000
4	16,000	400,000	100,000
5	32,000	600,000	200,000
6	64,000	900,000	300,000
7	128,000	1,400,000	500,000
8	256,000	2,200,000	800,000
9	512,000	3,500,000	1,300,000
10	1,024,000	5,500,000	2,000,000
11	2,048,000	8,850,000	3,350,000
12	4,096,000	14,150,000	5,300,000
13	8,192,000	22,600,000	8,450,000
14	16,384,000	36,100,000	13,500,000
15	32,768,000	57,700,000	21,600,000
16	65,536,000	92,300,000	34,600,000
17	131,072,000	147,650,000	55,350,000
18	262,144,000	236,200,000	88,550,000
19	524,288,000	377,850,000	141,650,000
20	1,048,576,000	604,550,000	226,700,000

There is no maximum level of storage tanks. Capacities and costs increase as per the formula above. Note that, while storage capacity grows exponentially (~60% per level), the cost of expending your warehouse doubles (100% per level); cost of expansion exceeds the increase in size at level 14, and exceeds overall capacity at level 18. This could still be worthwhile if you were doing merchant conversions a lot, though "to" ore seems rather improbable.

See Also

Crystal Warehouse

Hydrogen Storage

Ore Mine