One very important thing about this facility that's not
mentioned in its Datalinks entry - in addition to the prerequisite tech and an
Centauri Preserve in the base, you must also have built the Voice
of Planet before any of your bases can produce this facility. Coming so late
in the game, this means its bonus to lifecycle is probably going to be only rarely
of use. Its main function is to serve as a control against late-game ecological
disaster. It works with the Centauri Preserve and the Nanoreplicator
to reduce ecological damage from mineral production.
Note an important distinction between the Tree
Farm / Hybrid Forest combination and the Centauri
Preserve / Nanofactory / Temple of Planet
triad... while the Tree Farm and Hybrid Forest together completely eliminate damage
due to terraforming, the others merely reduce damage from production. This is
particularly dangerous in circumstances where production is artifically pumped,
as when a faction with the Space Elevator project
is producing orbital enhancements ( doubling mineral output ) , or when a mineral
enhancing special event occurs. These major events usually pass after a few turns.
If a bse is producing so much that it continues to cause damage even under normal
circumstances, you may want to consider transferring some of its high-output squares
to a neighboring base, or taking them out of production altogether.
