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However, while it's nice it's not necessary to get to space as quickly as possible. There are plenty of asteroids to go around.
Furthermore There is a "Extensive Mining Network" modifier that increasing your MC cost by n+1 starting from 1 for each planet and asteroid. If you have 4 different mining locations it costs you extra 1+2+3+4 = 10 MC FYR. You need to build up MC until 100.
After you have a mine set up and some space resources then things get much cheaper and somehwat faster.
That 2.5 boost or whatever it is, is just too good at the start. I also just go 100% spoils on it and then by the time I've got the boost set up in my superpower, I can dump Kazakhstan once you've ruined it for money.
The point of Luna is either get one of the few location that has massive uranium/rare metal or skip it and send send marines in a ship later on to capture the good spots.
But you need a place with massive uranium to feed anything at mars or beyond or its gonna cost you way too much in rocket/month to keep them up and running if you don't.
Mars/most asteroid and even ceres have relatively low uranium while Luna has a spot with 10+/month which is basically enough to feed your whole empire.
Mars is technically skippable. You get nearly double the ressources of Mars capturing ceres. And the real limiting factor are your rare metals when you want to build ships... Those are dispersed mostly in the asteroid belts. And the 2-3 good spot for that ressources are pretty much golden.
Luna is important to get to have basic ressource going to send stuff directly from space to save tons of fuel.
After ceres/asteroid the only. Other Important one Is mercury.
Also worth noting that getting few spots with higher values is better because the more stuff you got in space the easier you gonna pisss aliens.
I had a game where I rushed space hard... First on Luna got 3 bases there before anyone else. Which then let me also be first on Mars (5 bases before anyone else) and ceres (all base mine) + 3 very juicy asteroid.... And 10 ish space bases around earth.
Didn't take long for alien to get pissed and start blasting all my bases.
There's one tech in particular that's completely essential for any run and you should rush it as quickly as possible. I forget what it is called, but it's something like advanced chemical rockets. Early in the tech tree. Just look for it any you'll find it.