Description
Energy-Efficient Construction Technology optimizes building designs and materials to reduce energy consumption and enhance sustainability. -10% building power demand.
Benefits
Construction output Empire-wide+5.33%
Power output Empire-wide+2.67%-
Building power demand Empire-wide-10%
Strategy notes
Energy-Efficient Construction develops the Construction discipline within Industrial Megastructure Empire. Concentrate minerals, automation, and orbital capacity into unmatched construction throughput and system-scale works. Its immediate value is +40% Production; +20% Power. The principal counterpressure is that its fixed yards, long supply chains, and visible projects are vulnerable to blockade and sabotage. This milestone deliberately joins completed material, industrial, or colony infrastructure research.
Player hints
This tier begins to define an empire. Compare its resource demand with the other technologies competing for your laboratories. Favor this technology when its Construction benefits reinforce your current economy, fleets, or frontier. Pause the branch if its expected RP per tick is too diluted or its resource costs would stall higher-priority projects. Every Construction prerequisite must be completed before research can begin. -10% building power demand. Power generation is unchanged; combined demand reductions are capped at 30%.
Research cost
6.4KRP
4.8KCredits
2.4KCommon
640Rare
400Strategic
320Fuel