Keep playing/limited resources?

[Ghoul Thing One]

Are resources like metal completely finite, or do new deposits keep being found over time?

Also curious if you can keep playing after winning/achieving victory

[eddieballgame]

Metals, Rare Metals & Oil will deplete over time.
You can continue playing if you win, don't know if the AI wins.

[Polyanos]

Originally posted by eddieballgame:

Metals, Rare Metals & Oil will deplete over time.
you can continue playing if you win, don't know if the AI wins.

The natural deposits yes, but there are ways around that.

You can research and build buildings (quite early in fact) that effectively give you unlimited resources at a hefty building cost. Besides that you have a market where you can buy recources for credits.

[eddieballgame]

Originally posted by Polyanos:

Originally posted by eddieballgame:

Metals, Rare Metals & Oil will deplete over time.
you can continue playing if you win, don't know if the AI wins.

The natural deposits yes, but there are ways around that.

You can research and build buildings (quite early in fact) that effectively give you unlimited resources at a hefty building cost. Besides that you have a market where you can buy resources for credits.

That is true, but be very careful about relying on purchasing your resources...credits can be very tight & the market less dependable.
When relying on farms for bio-fuel make sure to increase your storage capacity as well as placing the farms (non-domed) in the best locations you can.

[WadeStar]

Deep core mining effectively gives you unlimited metal. Later in the game you can use electric engines and switch off nearly all your oil dependency.

[Ghoul Thing One]

thanks for the info yall! Glad to see I can treat the game like a sandbox, if I wanted to

[Polyanos]

Originally posted by eddieballgame:

That is true, but be very careful about relying on purchasing your resources...credits can be very tight & the market less dependable.
When relying on farms for bio-fuel make sure to increase your storage capacity as well as placing the farms (non-domed) in the best locations you can.

Its pretty easy in the early/mid game to just mass sell your rare metals for massive credits. When the time comes you actually need them you should be producing more than you can sell anyway and as a result be swimming in both rare metals and the credits from selling them.

But on the purchasing side, it indeed won't fuel your economy, but if you need to buy that much you really need to review your economy.

[can cuck]

Based on the planet generation will open up different avenues, my personal experience is on geologically active planets is mining the core, on others there are probably more expensive and complex ways to get resources but lets say there isn't that's why there is different tech and options, say you don't have access to A or lack in B well that's why you use a different set of tech for your economy/military.
And on the side of credits it may be a rough in the early game but if you actively raise population and civ level your taxes will sky rocket or atleast I never had a single issue but where to dump credits. But it has been a hot minute since I last did a full run.