My Habitats never get research districts

[Kalemenos]

My first game experimenting with Habitats. I'd like to have a research habitat over here, another kind over there... but when I build them, the kinds of districts, even the number of districts, seems completely random. I tried building a habitat, for example, in a System that had 8 society research. Nope, no research districts. I even tried again, dismantling the orbiting sci station first, and then building the district, thinking it might "fill in" and auto-specialize in the available resource, but nope. (There's a chance an auto-building Construction Ship re-built that sci station when I wasn't looking, cancelling the hoped for effect.)

But on line people speak of building Habitats in a very focused way. Is there any rhyme or reason to the kind and number of districts you get when building a Habitat? Thanks ahead of time to the geniuses who can help me.

[HappySack]

The districts are based on the deposit you replace, any research deposit will lead to research districts, and I shouldn't need to explain what mineral and energy deposits lead to.

The only special cases are strategic deposits which can be gathered as if it were a feature from a colony and also rare resource deposits which remain as a feature but also allow for research districts.

[Elitewrecker PT]

The available districts are supposed to be dependent on deposits available on the planet you build them over.

[Kalemenos]

Thanks for the replies! Alas, still unclear. I conquered a system with a habitat that had two research districts. It was built on a planet that had ONLY 13 trade value and NO research.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947916759

The star of the sys has 8 research, but the habitat is clearly on the planet. In a different system of mine, a moon had 7 res., so I deleted the station. But when I wanted to build the habitat, I could only do so on the planet of that moon; I did not get any research districts.

Let me take a guess: it only works when it is a PLANET that has the resource, and not its moons or systems? Then how did the AI empire build research stations on a trade value planet?

[Sparkie]

Originally posted by Kalemenos:

Thanks for the replies! Alas, still unclear. I conquered a system with a habitat that had two research districts. It was built on a planet that had ONLY 13 trade value and NO research.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947916759

The star of the sys has 8 research, but the habitat is clearly on the planet. In a different system of mine, a moon had 7 res., so I deleted the station. But when I wanted to build the habitat, I could only do so on the planet of that moon; I did not get any research districts.

Let me take a guess: it only works when it is a PLANET that has the resource, and not its moons or systems? Then how did the AI empire build research stations on a trade value planet?

The habitat has 13 trade value, not the planet.

[Warhunter]

you can only build habitats over planets.
so if the moons have the deposit that doesnt count. only the planet the habitat is over is checked for if it has a deposit

you have to select the planet itself as i dont recall being able to see the planet's resource from the habitat menu.

also void dwellers get a decision that allows them to prospect planets for resources to gain access to the 4th district only if the planet doesnt have a resource that gives access to a 4th district (energy, mineral or science)
note it doesnt give the planet resources. it just gives you your 4th district as if you have a type of resource on that planet

planet types does influence what you can get from the decision.
only frozen, gas and toxic worlds have a chance to spawn with research deposits so you will only be able to get a chance to get research districts with "Orbital surveying" over those planets

[The Grand Mugwump]

Originally posted by Kalemenos:

Thanks for the replies! Alas, still unclear. I conquered a system with a habitat that had two research districts. It was built on a planet that had ONLY 13 trade value and NO research.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947916759

The star of the sys has 8 research, but the habitat is clearly on the planet. In a different system of mine, a moon had 7 res., so I deleted the station. But when I wanted to build the habitat, I could only do so on the planet of that moon; I did not get any research districts.

Let me take a guess: it only works when it is a PLANET that has the resource, and not its moons or systems? Then how did the AI empire build research stations on a trade value planet?

That planet has a science deposit, but habitats hide it from view since it can no longer be used by anything other than that habitat.

[Kalemenos]

Got it, thanks for the help everyone. I think I grasp it: I get the districts for the specific resource when the PLANET has that resource, and I eliminate the res/min station which is in the way. If the moon or the star of that system has the resource, it does not reflect on the district specialization of the habitat, but only the planet. And stars, asteroids, and moons can't have habitats, but only planets. Mugwump's tip that the resource becomes hidden from view was also very helpful. Thanks again!