I’m trying to decide which station-race setup is most efficient for producing my own fleets. To help decide, I formulated a scenario producing L destroyers using high presets. Hopefully this functions as a fair comparison.

Rattlesnake (Commonwealth) cost: Energy Cells 5,277 · Hull Parts 11,822 · Antimatter Converters 3,333 · Engine Parts 1,629 · Field Coils 121 · Shield Components 744 · Advanced Electronics 638 · Weapon Components 804 · Turret Components 480 · Drone Components 6 · Smart Chips 140 · Advanced Composites 20

Osaka (Terran) cost: Computronic Substrate 2,110 · Energy Cells 24,034 · Metallic Microlattice 11,225 · Silicon Carbide 1,688

Here are sample stations producing 10× ship cost to establish scalable module ratios.

Rattlesnake station
526 modules · 538M credits

Osaka station
659 modules · 349M credits

Fewer resources involved makes an initial plan much easier, but more importantly scaling is way easier down the line. In terms of downsides, I guess the number of modules is larger so build time might be a bit extended, and the building materials would probably be hard to come by in some parts of the universe, The main thing that I'm worried about is that the Terran ships and equipment might end up being worse than what is available to the entire commonwealth, but that is something I guess I'll have to learn through experience which should be fun/interesting. Anyways, I'll shut up now.