[Lord_Shleepy]

Originally posted by PvK:
Well gold is a mineral...

Personally I enjoy the absence of a monetary system, at least for some empires, because money is really a social population manipulation system, which not all empires would require.

PvK

Truly...a less specific system allows for much more modification/imagination. It's easy enough to believe that all of these financial transactions are taking place in the background of the SEIV universe. In fact, many details of the operation of the empire must be occuring in the background. Diplomatic missions, supply convoys, in-system commerce and trade, trade between species, individual citizens watering their lawns, etc. It's true that some modifications to the resource system would be nice...but too much would simply create a clutter and make an already complex game all that more "busy". Personally, I would rather concentrate on galactic domination than on balancing my books...that's what accounting slaves are are for. I can fuss over the intricacies of economics when paying my credit card bills.