What is clustering?
CWhen an empire begins to reach its colony limit, it can be useful to “cluster” your planets into denser colonies. Note that a colony and a planet are not necessarily the same, as a colony can hold more then one planet. The first colony Cluster you can make is a level 1 or “C1” and it contains 5 planets. The level 2 contains 5 C1s or 25 planets and the C3 contains 5 C2s or 125 planets. Finally what happens to your colonies when they are combined can be good or bad. All the land on each individual colony is added together to make the new colony’s total land (the same is done for available ore, and each infrastructure type). The loyalty of the most unloyal colony in the group of five becomes the loyalty of the new colony (not averaged). You pick one mineral type from one of the original colonies to be produced by the new cluster at 5 times the rate of any one of the original colonies. Note that a C1 produces 5 times the minerals then a single planet and a C3 125 times that of a single pl
