Posted on behalf of @runic coral
If you buy a land empty of buildings it may take several months to max it while if you buy a maxed plot it will produce a nice amount of fuel each day starting the first day. Right now there's no way to know if you buy a maxed or empty plot and for a land buyer they have 2 different values.
It seems an update will come shortly after the open beta start that will allow everyone to see the buildings inside all land plots. It is very important that the level of all buildings could be revealed too because it's quite different to have 6 level 5 or 6 level 6 and they look the same.
Personally I would prefer a button to allow or not allow others to see the buildings inside your plot so it won't be that easy to copy everything and each player could have their own tactics allowing to show probably only when trying to sell a plot. There'll be an update to give buildings movements I saw the sample and at least for me it's way too much movement, will be great to have a button to allow keep it as it is now.
In addition to the update to see the builings, when you go to illuvidex and see the details of a land plot, that tab should show the development points of that land plot.
To calculate this asign a value to each building level 1. Then for each level up multiply x3 the base value of that building.
If nexus level 1 = 40 pts. Nexus level 5 = 40 x 3^5 = 40 x 243 = 9720 pts. Sum the value of all buildings to have the total development points of a land plot. If a player demolish a building the land plot will lose the dev points of that building. Same as before, option to hide or show dev points of your plot may be great.
Additionally at the illuvidex add search by dev points option. From less to more and from more to less. Also add the option to search a ratio of dev points split between the price in $ to buy that land, and show from higuer to lower. The higuer the ratio the better.
More info and search tools will make easier to buy land and may increase the number of trades.