Fwurg

[Mercury]

At the current time, resource specific zones (such as those generated by Gas Giants, Asteroid Belts, Rings and Trojan Asteroids) do not allow upgrades.

Do you believe it would be better to allow upgrades for these zones? This would make these (cheap) zones more useful though they would still not be as useful as zones on regular planets, which are more versatile and can benefit from focus and tertiary zones.

Please feel free to post your thoughts on the topic.

[Praetorian Empire]

Since the metal zones only cost half the rock i don't think upgrades should be appropriate. Because u can only boost metal and gasses with those it would probably become unbalanced.
For gass giants it might be ok to let them upgrade since they cost 1 gass for each zone.

[Veolian Commonwealth]

Voted no. I think that upgrading the normal way should not be allowed; at least part of those specific zones are there because they cost less in terms of solar-system-budget. It think that each of these specific zones has a limited amount of accessable resource, and that amount is not suddenly increased by spending taxes. Unless one says that the extraction process is made that much more efficient by upgrading, but to me that would indicate that a coorporation should also be able to specialise the zone.

Side Note @Chris: Is 'you' or 'one' that much more effort than 'u'?

[Sundarian Federation]

I second the argument Chris makes here, these zones are already cheaper then the 'normal' zones through systembuilding. The restriction that these zones therefore can't be upgraded seems a good way to balance this.

[Praetorian Empire]

@Brend, Yes u are right, 2 extra letters!

[Mercury]

Poll closed. Resource Specific Zones will not allow upgrades.

[The Lifebringer Clans]

Do resource Specific Zones allow specialization through corporations?