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General information about colonies:

• If you buy a Colony in the TE3000 HUD, then this will enable disasters. If you don't buy a colony, then the HUD will be like the regular Full Version HUD, and you won't see any disasters. However, unlike the Fed HUD, the default handling of a disaster is not as destructive to your colonists. It will default to the cheapest (not free) option, and you will lose a small percentage of colonists. Another major difference from the Fed HUD, is that the zero cost option, will actually generate income for you, at a cost of 2% of your total colonists. While, the cost in colonists may seem high, there are also random events that allow colonists to join you, which have the potential to more than offset your losses if you choose this option.
• Each colony improves your income by 100 credits/ship to a maximum of 300 credits/ship.
• You can have a maximum of three (3) colonies. When you buy more (fourth, fifth, sixth,..etc.) colonies, it replaces the colony with the least citizen capacity.
• A recent option is that you can choose yourself which of your colonies is replaced by a new one. This only happens when you have at least three (3) colonies.

Minimum requirements for a colony:

• Rank at least: Trader (50 ships total)
• Amount of total ships required are not confirmed exactly. Estimates are:
  • 1st colony: (around) 50 ships total
  • 2nd colony: (around) 70 ships total
  • 3rd colony: (around) 90 ships total
• You get an offer to buy your first three colonies about once a day (24 hours); when you don't buy it will come back after about 1 hour
• For your first 3 colonies, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 50% of the new colony's capacity.
• Once you have 3 colonies, you will have opportunities to upgrade them.
  • These upgrade offers will show up every 5 days. [Actual elapsed time needs confirmation.]
  • You will be asked which colony you wish to replace. (Defaults to the smallest colony.)
  • When you upgrade, you will receive a colonist boost equal to 20% of the new colony's capacity.
  • Warning: If your total ships have declined, you may have colony offers that are smaller than the ones you already have.
• The max colonist % is 150%, after that, you will lose excess colonists

Prices of colonies range from around 480K credits to over 2B credits (and still rising!), depending on rank, total ships, citizen capacity, kind of colony and maybe more variables. More research is necessary.

Colony Types

Type	Benefits	Examples
Terrestrial	Higher payout per colonist at census	Terrestrial planetoid, Volcanic Dwarf Planet, Telluric Planet
Mining	Random credit bonuses & random quantities of ore	Mining asteroid, Iron-Nickel Moon, Yttric Planet
Orbital / Man-made	Discounted disaster handling and research	Orbital laboratory, Colony Starship, Advanced Starbase

Colony Classes

Class	Name	Colonist Capacity	Cost	Total Ships Required	Type
1	Terrestrial Planetoid	2,000	437,500	Min: 50
	Mining asteroid			Max: 149
	Orbital Laboratory
2	Advanced Orbital Laboratory	2,500	1,417,500	Min: 70 ?
	Medium Planetoid			Max: ?
	Large Mining asteroid
3	Iron-Rich Asteroid	3,200	3,937,500	Min: 150
	Orbital Vehicle			Max: ?
	Small Icy Moon
4	Carbonaceous Asteroid	4,000	8,859,375	Min: ?
	Icy Moon			Max: ?
	Orbital Spacedock
5	Orbital Base	6,000	18,000,000	Min: ?
	Volcanic Moon			Max: ?
	Silicate Asteroid
6	Large Volcanic Moon	9,000	50,000,000	Min: ?
	Magnesium Asteroid			Max: ?
	Advanced Orbital Base
7	Rocky Moon	17,000	122,500,000	Min: ?
	Binary Iron Asteroid			Max: ?
	Colony Spaceship
8	Advanced Colony Spaceship	30,000	242,000,000	Min: ?
	Plutonic Moon			Max: ?
	Iron Asteroid Field
9	Iron-Nickel Moon	50,000	393,750,000	Min: ?
	Colony Starship			Max: ?
	Volcanic Dwarf Planet
10	Small Volcanic Planet	125,000	484,000,000	Min: ?
	Advanced Colony Starship			Max: ?
	Selenic Planet
11	Small Volcanic Planet	250,000	800,000,000	Min: ?
	Advanced Colony Starship		(Yes, the same names)	Max: ?
	Selenic Planet
12	Starbase	240,000	800,000,000	Min: ?
	Xenolith Planet			Max: ?
	Waterworld Planet				Terrestrial
13	Advanced Starbase	430,000	1,474,560,000	Min: ?
	Telluric Planet			Max: ?
	Yttric Planet
14	Artificial Moon	800,000	4,000,000,000	Min: ?
	Diamond-core Gas Giant			Max: ?
	Blue-green Planet
15	Terraformed Star System	2,000,000	300,000,000,000	Min: ?
	Ore Rich Star System			Max: ?
	Dyson Sphere

Advice on colonies

Considering the above, it's a personal choice what to buy. But there are some "general rules" that can be helpful.

• When you handle one of the disasters, a man-made colony (Orbital spacedock, Colony starship, etc.) lowers the cost of handling the disaster, including the cost of research.
• When you need (some) extra income, the mining-type colonies gives some extra credits from time to time, and the asteroids/moons/planets (non-mining type) produce a greater output per colonist at census-time, yielding a greater overall payout for the census.