Limited Resources

[Nyx]

So I did some experiments over the weekend with galaxies having the limited resources option turned on.

Blowing up a planet and rebuilding it does not reset the resources available.

Building a ringworld/sphereworld gives you lots and lots of resources but not as many as it costs to make them. So building and destroying rings is not a viable source of infinite resources.

Oddly, even when my planets ran out of resources they still produced as many as the buildings were capable of harvesting. So I had tons of worlds with 0 minerals remaining, putting out 26kt per turn and so forth.

I also noticed that value improvement plants did absolutely nothing at all. Bummer that.

Also, Beck thanks for the pointer (in the ring/sphereworlds thread) that the SE3 trick of building and blowing up planets doesn't work any more as a way to get all huge worlds. Sure enough you always get a planet the same size as the asteroid field, or smaller if your component is too wimpy. And you always get an asteroid field of the same size as the planet when you blow it up. It is a fast way of altering the atmosphere and planet type though.