Mods: I believe the ultimate mod is incomplete, but it's pretty impressive.
Don't worry about messing up your installation. Modern mods put their files in a seperate directory without overwriting anything, so you can just change the path.txt and use the original game / another mod if you choose. Unistalling a mod is just a matter of deleting the appropriate dir.
Someone will probably post you a link to Matryx's famous modpicker, which changes path.txt for you to allow easy changing between diffrent mods.
MM don't endorse any specific mods, but they do endorse "this kind of thing", because they were the ones who made the game so moddable. It is designed to be configurable.
As for your resource problems... if you are producing too many minerals you're doing fine. trade thm with anothr empire for orgs / rads or build yourself a resource convrter. Better yet, build lots of storage and save them up for when you need them.
Minerals. Yum=-)
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