yes u are definitly right it was a big mistake science base is a lot better

i find two awesome tactic or maybe i should say two best way to make yourself crazy

1- in the start till year 1.5 i sell every cheap equipment and luxury trade item that i find to one of the bases in my home (i chosed science base beacuse i will try to protect it more often) beacuse their price dont change in first 1.5 years and they wont use trade items like planets do

2- i actually can force the game to generate missiles:D/ wow its 2 november of 3301 (with 150% equipment difficulty) and with a lot of loading and saving (and doing different things) i managed to find a rank d missile launcher if i continue this trick for the next month i can find another missile too :P

wow its very interesting lol its embracing for me to become so exited in such age but i cant stop myself 

so if i want any equipment (lets say equipment x) i need to increase the power generator to that lvl then i must try to increase equipment x lvl .this means if i want power generator rank 8 i can get it in minimum of 720 days? well if planet pick next equipment immediately after upgrading the last equipment

probably frequency of picking a equipment by planet (to increase its lvl) is based on size and planet economy and random factors

status report :P
well this run was awesome i learn alot from it. for 1.5 years nothing happened i had 3 systems in my sector, but for some unknown reason, 1 system with 2 planet (peleng and gallian) survived (system name is arce). near the end of 3301 terron attacked me and i alone face the full wave (with 2 missile ) exactly no help coming from other ships, i forced to kill some of non military ships too beacause in their futile retreat they bring the terron troops to my beloved science station ,  how stupid i was for not using MM on my beginning missile (saving it for a better missile), its probably why i couldnt fight back dominators at all

year after year pased and still that damned arce system survived so i couldnt attack other systems that much (question why that system survived, nearly any system would fall if i wasnt there :S)

- wow multi resonator are awesome, why i didnt use it before is beacause of my stupidity i can even say they are the most powerfull weapons after vertix and imho-9000 i started my massacre way sooner with them i also get all of my multies from pirates , i wonder why should i use vertixes untill i find rank G-H.

- i also doing some maneuvering training, i managed to kill a full pack of dominators with 4 multi, no shield and a droid with 20 repair , it was very interesting and also rewarding

ok some question again :P:
1- why that arce system with only 2 planet survived it was in middle of dominators, and i couldnt see it without cheat: showmap

2- how i am not the top fighter u know in ranger rating there is top fighter, trader, pirate but also i killed a lot i am not the best fighter (well it dont change anything but i was curious )

3- sometimes i see some  equipment for sell in bases or even planets that disapear very soon, they are light and way over the tech lvl (for example i buy my 20 weight temporal engine from hahaldock in year 3316 but untill now i didnt see 1 of this engines anywhere else or in hull of any ship) what cause such a thing, how can i use this feature?

4- equipment drop: sometimes it seems that the game just dont want to give anything except somethings specific, i tried to get an equipment from a pirate (multi :P) i killed him in 15 different days and loot always was fuel tank or engine but if i let it go, do different things and come back to same pirate (with nearly the same wealth) do the same thing, it drop many different things why?

5- bulldozer u said in this post (( link )) that i can find some unexpected opportunities what did u mean by that?

6- why there is not a blue eye gallian or fat faeyan oh it was joke not a good one but i tried :P

reason for editing: text correction, some senteces made absolutely no meaning, LOL

1 two pirates or rangers can constantly take off from planets and land the next turn until Keller spawns and kills Terronoids. Happened in my games too.

2 It gives a bit of exp, though don't remember how the the best warrior is calculated.

3 YES bases can sell much higher equipment (military base with F rocket launchers from the start, not bad, eh?)

4 Unluck. Loot changes when you slow down the target(with a weapon oe artifact) and depending on the weapon killing the target. Gonna be pain in the ass but getting the drop you want is possible in several turns. And tech level has no influence on coalition ships, only on dominators! Loot or buy some leaks, lazers etc and try out.

5 I wanted to say I recommend to reload often as new loot in the space or defense quests or highly damaged pirate can appear. The game depends on luck. :-)

6 Lore-wise if I'm not mistaken feis can not be fat.

I'm glad you are getting better. :-)

Absolutly no. Though this theory was recognized by a large amount of players.

Its almost random process 

Each equipment part (droid, generator, engine, lezka, missle launcher etc) has it's own level of development. One day the game picks one of these parameters, for example engine, and in 80-90 (don't know the exact number -- some say it's 84, others say it's 90) days the planet gets the increase of this parameter.

Okay I'm late I think but those numbers are known now. The speed planet is developing depends on the nation (gallians being the best as you know), specialization (industrial planets being best) and the size of the planet (big planets being best). Big planet without specialization is better than smaller industrious planets.