Finite resources vs infinite resources

HP Delron · #1 February 26th, 2002, 02:04 AM

some good points but i think the key to a good finite resource game is to DISABLE all resource improvement plants.

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 26th, 2002, 05:38 AM

If you do that, you end up with a heat death for the universe.

Perhaps better would be a one-per-planet value improvement facility. Then you still get to balance conservation & productivity.

Teach the kiddies responsible use of resources!

HP Delron · #3 February 26th, 2002, 06:12 AM

Eventually everything dies... even the universe, sad but true

Suicide Junkie · #4 February 26th, 2002, 06:19 PM

Sure, but it takes longer than a decade to happen

If you disable Stellar manipulation, you'll get a better heat-death scenario, as the stars go nova one-by-one.

1FSTCAT · #5 February 26th, 2002, 10:16 PM

I like them. I've never learned to grow my resources though. In every game I've played, we all just strip-mine, and pummel until everything is gone, then we wither-up and die.

There's probably a more graceful way, but I haven't learned it yet..

I feel like it gives another reason to fight over planets, too..

capnq · #6 February 28th, 2002, 01:09 AM

I've only played one finite resource game, and disliked it so much that I've never played another. IMO completely stripping the resources of an entire planet within a few years is totally unrealistic.

jimbob · #7 February 28th, 2002, 02:38 AM

Oh, I don't know, I think we've done a good job of significantly reducing our resources in the past 500 years

Sure, we haven't quite succeeded in bring our resources down to zero yet, but we've only just left the industrial age! Think of the possibilities once we really get some space-aged/nanotech-aged manipulations happening!