[Wolfman77]

I think that would allow you to steal from your enemies and not just you allies though. Still it would make those intel projects useful. I'm thinking more along the lines of larger storage capacity so you could go for 20 or so turns without running out.

Or fill a planet with mineral miner, if it’s your races specialty, and trade it foe a planet full of organics farms, for example.

Thanks for the intel idea though, I forget about that part of the game too often.