Improvements

Improvements are standard projects that can be built multiple times on each colony.

Improvements include:

• Market Centers & Banks - Improve tax income from the planet
  • Market Center
  • Adv. Market Center
  • Trade Center
  • Banking Center
  • Stock Market
• Farms - Increase food production
  • Basic Farming
  • Xeno Farming
  • Intensive Farming
  • Advanced Farming
• Embassies & Cultural Exchanges - Increase the influence of the colony
  • Embassy
  • Cultural Exchange Center
• Research Labs - Increase research
  • Basic Lab
  • Xeno Lab
  • Research Center
  • Research Academy
  • Invention Matrix
  • Discovery Sphere
  • Neutrality Learning Center (neutral) only
• Entertainment Centers - Increase approval in that colony
  • Entertainment Network
  • Multimedia Center
  • Extreme Stadium
  • Zero G Sports Arena
  • Virtual Reality Center
• Factories - Increase manufacturing
  • Basic Factory
  • Factory
  • Enhanced Factory
  • Manufacturing Center
  • Industrial Sector
• Planetary Defense - Increases planet defense.
• Propaganda Center - Increases loyalty (evil only).

These can only be built once on each planet:

• Starport - Allow ships to be built.
• Orbital Fleet Manager - Allows ships in orbit to defend as a single fleet

In addition there are the following terraforming 'improvements':

• Soil Enhancement
• Habitat Improvement
• Terraforming

You can also Decommission normal improvements.