The Importance of Organics

[kalthalior]

Organics are not usually utilized much unless you pick the Organic Technology as a racial trait. Radioactives aren't utilized as much as Minerals, but their use picks up (some) with higher level technologies. Minerals are really the focal resource in the game. I believe some mods try to address this to some extent.

[dogscoff]

Later in the game radioactives become far more important for things like stellar maniuplation. Organics are important for organics races, and for a few of the more obscure components and facilities.
But basically, yeah. In the standard game, M rules and O&R are only good for trading with the AIs. (Or for feeding into your resource converter.)

Once you start playing with mods, however, O&R come into their own. Proportions, Devnull and P&N all have more balanced resource costs, and probably other mods as well.

[Suicide Junkie]

In the PBW P&N game I'm playing now, the exchange rate I trade at is:
70 Minerals = 130 Organics = 120 Radioactives.
My engine tech is picking up now, so I expect radioactives will soon become even more valuable.

[Mylon]

How do you use resource converters anyway? Is it automatic based on empire surplus, or is there some special way to activate it?

[tesco samoa]

build it on a planet... and when you click on that planet the icon will highlight at the top and you select it..

Then on the left is resources... on the right you select what you want to convert them to..

Click on the left for how much...

[Tezzezar]

Is it worthwhile converting Organics to Mineral or radiaocative?

Seems redundant when you can just build the facilites to produce them. Unless you're in a poor sector of the galaxy.

G-

[Baron Grazic]

Try retro-fitting a 50 ship Attack Fleet plus their Supply Ships to the latest Engines, Weapons and Shields, and as your Mineral Supplies drop you will quickly see the benifit of the Resource Converter.

In a PBW Game, retro-fitting my ships used ALL my Minerals, Organic & Radioactives that I had stored - 1.5M Resources in total. With the Help of the Resource Converter, I had just enough Minerals to complete the Retro-fit and the ships will be soon heading back to the front.