[Wolfman77]

Thanks those are some great ideas for what I was thinking about. I looked last night at the settings file and saw that I couldn't change the per turn increase for trade like I wanted to. Seems its hard coded at 1%. Just means I'll try a different way of doing it. I could even separate the 3 resources so you could, for example, trade minerals that you are good at mining for organics that you can't grow much of.

The only downside I can think of is having to constantly ask for or send things to other empires.

Thanks again for the kickstart, I have a few ideas now.