Growing Resources on Next Colony - Weekly Report
I play NextColony without spending any money on the game. I started at the beginning of May and spend a few minutes each day seeing what I can upgrade.
In my last Next Colony post, thought I would only upgrade Coal and Ore now, since I need so much of both to do anything. but this turned out to be a bad strategy.
I need all the resources to upgrade. It turns out I was ending up with too much Coal and Ore and not enough Copper and Uranium to do anything. Sometimes my Coal and Ore are overflowing and I still cannot not upgrade since my Copper and Uranium are too low.
So now I have a new strategy.
Each time I go into Next Colony now, I upgrade whatever mines and depots I can regardless of which ones they are.
Today, here is my progress and current status.
First I will look at my buildings:
My Coal Mine is Level 15 and my Ore Mine is Level 16.
Both my Copper and Uranium Mines are level 14. It turns out I need a lot more Copper now as you will see below.
My Coal Depot is too low at Level 12, and I will upgrade this as soon as I can. The Ore Depot is higher, but still is a focus so I do not waste Ore while waiting for other resources to be enough for an upgrade.
And you see both the Copper and Uranium Depots are at Level 12. I have not been overflowing either of those, since they are slow growing right now.
Moving on to my skills, I do not have enough resources to upgrade any of these right now. Copper is lacking for all of them, and so this is now a pressing need.
All of my depots need more Copper to upgrade!
These research skills below all take 5 days to upgrade. Though they do not cost much to upgrade, the time is the sticking point. I am not sure it is worth it, but I upgrade these when I can.
You can see I am in the middle of upgrading my Uranium Production now. I will upgrade Copper Production the next couple times I can do it.
My meta skills are 189 now up from 163 in my last report. I think the higher number helps if you end up to explore the galaxy, battle, and find other planets, so I am glad to see the increase.
If you are playing @nextcolony, I would love to know what you think. Is there any thing else I should be doing? Stay tuned for my next report, and I will let you know how this all works out.
What you should do? You should skill Explorer (20) and Shipyard (13) for exploring!
I think I might be close on the Shipyard, but not on the explorer. My ships are all level 1 or 2 now!