How do you build forge or research worlds?

[Cryten]

Simple question. since these buildings only provide 2 jobs each, what else do you build to keep these places not rioting from lack of employment? Feels wrong that I need 3 city districts or 1.5 resource districts to keep my alloys, consumer goods and research planets decent.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Enact population control? Resettle extra pops?

[Cryten]

Im not talking about over population, thats normal. Im talking about planet builds. Do you fill out all your city districts just to keep 2-3 alloy foundaries online? Do you use basic resource buildings along with your consumer goods buildings and pollute the purity of the planet?

[Elitewrecker PT]

The point of specialising a planet is supplying it through other planets.
Or you can "pollute" it for a bit of self-sustainability.

[Cryten]

Soo back to the question I actually asked. How do you build your specialised planets? How do you deal with the fact that each build slot requires 5 pops but each specialist building only provides 2 jobs? At least for all the time I spend before upgrades are possible.

[Quicksilver]

In the absence of available jobs, Domestic Servitude slaves will self-employ as servants (providing amenities) and are good for padding out the pop count on these worlds if you are slave-capable. If you don't have access to them, you can run a small (~2 of each) number of districts and avoid them flipping the planet type.

[Elitewrecker PT]

I'd actually say you don't need to bother with specialising alloy or tech planets before you're able to upgrade them. Or resort to some districts in the meantime like you said.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

There's no harm in adding a couple districts to fill out the extra jobs, especially in the early game before you're able to access and support the upgraded versions of the alloy/research/consumer goods buildings. They don't detract from the planet's specialization bonus, and the district slots would be wasted if you just left them empty - you can always replace Energy/Mineral/Food districts with City districts later on if you plan on converting the world into an Ecumenopolis.

[Cryten]

Thank you for your answers fellow gamers.

[Saboras]

Wait a moment. You do know that you can upgrade your labs and forges? 1 building can provide 8(or was it 10?) jobs if you upgrade it to tier 3. In the early phases you can't afford a pure sience/forge world anyways and as soon as u can you should have the tech to upgrade your buildings.

[Elitewrecker PT]

^^ ye, he knows, that's ops question. What did people use to give jobs before upgrading them.

[RhyoliTe]

I wouldn't bother with specializing, you only get +2,5% output which seems laughable.