[alien]

Yes I am playing a finite resources game. I have good relations with the other species and I am therefore obtaining a lot of resources from trade. I suppose I am still early into the game and it may be that if/when war breaks out I will need all the resource production I can lay my hands on.

Thanks for the comments. By the way, is there an imbalance in the requirement for minerals versus organics/radioactives in an average game ??? It seems that a lot of production requires lots of minerals but few organics/radioactives. Maybe I haven't played the game for a long enough.

Cheers.