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me casts vote against Civ 3 style resources. All they do is make you restart the game way too many times due to the game cheating and giving you really bad starts compared to the AIs (especially your neighbors)... Miss out on a critical resource and you are screwed. Horsemen and phalanx don't fair well against pikemen and knights... _If_ some sort of resources are going to be in the game, lack of them should provide a bit of a penalty or offset one, rather than just make huge eras of items unavailable.
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Considering the curresnt state and proboble future state of SE AI, anything that makes the game more dificult is better. And of course not having resources is the point, that means you would have to negotiate for them or take them. One of the things I don't like about the current SE is there is no difference from planet to planet to any great degree. All locations are the same. I think it would be great if I was the only dilitium source in the galaxy and build a trade empire around it. Would also be great if I had to form a galaxy wide coalition to break up a cartel as well.
In its current form there is only one aspect of the game, build a military. and usually like the RTS games most of us hate numbers care the day too. I wand more depth.