Growing Resources on Next Colony - Weekly Report

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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.

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Both my Copper and Uranium Mines are level 14. It turns out I need a lot more Copper now as you will see below.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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All of my depots need more Copper to upgrade!

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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.

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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.

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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.