Nevertheless, those LF researches do increase the production a lot. Take this example of one of my planets in Volans:
The metal mine 57 there has a base producing of 3M (3.8M in reality but GF does not round off these figures to the closest biggest number)
Lifeform Research combined does 5M (5.7M in reality for the same reason). (The resource overview has been compacted so not all items are showing).
But also not even taking into account Magma Forge, Plasma Technology, Items, Collector Bonus, Alliance Class, Crawlers and the Geologist (if I forget one let me know).
This extra production is thus nothing into account regarding Economy, while it does contribute to it. Simply put, sorry looks a bit messy, but the total of all the extra's that are adding to the metal mine is about 6 times as much than the single metal mine itself. In other words, the 'economy points' are not giving an accurate picture of what somebody produces.
Metal Mine (Level 57) | 3M |
Total per hour: | 18M |