Crystal Warehouse

From Starfleet Commander
Revision as of 16:51, 16 December 2010 by OBloodyHell (talk | contribs) (enhanced the "note", added trade merchant relevance, genericized it for other warehouses.)
Jump to navigationJump to search
Crystal storage.png

The Crystal Warehouse warehouse allows you to keep larger amounts of crystal on a planet. When the amount of crystal on a planet exceeds your storage capacity, your mines will no longer produce Crystal. By upgrading the Crystal 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 approriate Warehouse is exceeded no more res is produced by the mine of that res. 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 an 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 res, and 200k of that res on hand, then the most the trade merchant will allow you to trade "for" is an additional 2,000,000 of that res. You can trade "from" any amount of res 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(1.6Level)+1)

Table

Level Ore Cost Crystal Cost Capacity Difference
Start N/A N/A 100,000 N/A
1 2,000 1,000 150,000 50,000
2 4,000 2,000 200,000 50,000
3 8,000 4,000 300,000 100,000
4 16,000 8,000 400,000 100,000
5 32,000 16,000 600,000 200,000
6 64,000 32,000 900,000 300,000
7 128,000 64,000 1,400,000 500,000
8 256,000 128,000 2,200,000 800,000
9 512,000 256,000 3,500,000 1,300,000
10 1,024,000 512,000 5,500,000 2,000,000

There is no maximum level of storage tanks. Capacities and costs increase as per the formula above.

See Also