It just kills me that 2/3 resources on a dyson go completely to waste. If you build structures to maximize research, you're missing out on roughly 1000 mineral points per hour and 1000 artifact points per hour.

There should be a series of special structures that players can install on planets with more than one strong resource. They should be very hard to get, obviously, and maybe even unique, or limited to a small number.

There are already a few structures that do this such as the Omnibase and the Captured Crimson Base, but it's nowhere near enough to consider retooling your structures. It would just be cool if you could build structures on your mission dyson or exotic that would make it the epic friggin hub of your planetary empire.

Put all your special structures on it first, and then fill up the remaining space with regular structures (shouldn't be more than two +12s).

FWIW, if you have all the special structures, you can't fit any +12 buildings on a Dyson.

I've been wondering, what is "FWIW?" But yeah, I wasn't really sure, but it's tough to have all the special structures anyway, that's just the idea.

I think what the guy is trying to say is that he wishes there were more "all 3 resources" buildings, like more versions of the Warp Gate or Omnibases.

FWIW = For What Its Worth

I may be missing something but I think this is the maxed out list (I purposely left off the Stripmine as who wants to lose arties!)
66/75 Spaces
1 Refining Lab
1 Warp Gate
1 Relay Tower
1 Sha'jha Uplink
1 Sha'jha Uplink
1 Convoy Heat Seeker
1 Permafrost Sub-Network
1 Quantum Hydro-Meliorator
1 Zolazin Analyzer
1 Zolazin Analyzer
1 Processing Core
2 Assimilation Locus
5 Drannik Databank
1 Interrogation Stronghold
1 Sha'din Grid Network
1 Silthion Gas Vesicle
5 Captured Crimson Base
1 Antimatter Drill Mining
2 Captured T.O. Harvester
2 Sulcation Portal
5 Omnibase
2 Modified Grid-Pylon
1 Auric Lepus Drone
1 Lepus Drone
1 Phase Cutter
1 Phase Cutter
1 Space Elevator
1 Space Elevator
1 Exotic Lab
2 Heist Dispatch Center
2 Counter-Intelligence Nexus
1 XTS-10 Injector
1 Taltherian Archives
1 Taltherian Archives
2 HyperSensor Satellite
1 Polychoron Vault
1 DM79 Datacenter
3 RSL Data Uplink
3 RSL Data Uplink
3 Sillixx Starport
2 Weather Controller

The Captured T.O. Harvester and Modified Grid-Pylon are both 2 space, but other than that it looks right. There's also the Guarded Memorial, but that's 2 space for 1 research, so not all that great. But yeah, you're right, no +12s.

I updated the Captured T.O. but both spots on the wiki say the Grid is a space 1, the forum spots I can find it say 2. Can someone confirm which and I'll fix the wiki if it's wrong?

you can also have 2 barrier nexus per planet, which are size 1 +1 artifact buildings

I'm looking at right now, Size:2, Research:2, Cloak:125, Defense:200.

So what's the total + minerals/artifacts/research if you do all the specials? I'm bad at math.

I don't have them all but most of them and I get:
Mining: 460 units/hr
Artifact: 700 units/hr
Research: 897 units/hr

Note, it is 34x research.