Virtual Ascension and Strategic Resources
How are you meant to approach strategic resource management as a virtual machine empire in 4.4?
They seem to have been reworked to be far more dependent on planet deposits, which creates problems when you have ~ 6 worlds to work with. Even where I’m lucky enough to get the deposits for all three in nearby resource worlds, I still end up running huge deficits to support capital + research world + forge world. Game turns into a kind of tedious trading simulator where I have to to cycle through buying\selling the three to prevent the prices going haywire.
Also fair to say that I’m generally struggling with naval cap/alloys/anything except producing loads of research (but not enough to qualitatively overcome difference in fleet quantity) with the virtual build. Usually playing RS with base game (Utopia etc) + machine age.