I've just noticed that the galactic resources are just very very overpowering. I realize that they are ment to be good enough to go to war over but getting a single one should be a game winner?
for example the influence reasource is able to totally overpower the influence of a much larger empire. In a recent huge map game i had 209 colonies to an empire that had 79- i checked their planets-most were very under developed and those that weren't had not much culture improvements- where mine had large numbers of both culture and stock markets- Plus i had nearly 3x his colonies. Yet he was pushing my influence back- even overwhenlming clusters of 5 worlds at a time- let alone solitary worlds.
I thought he was going for a culture win before i checked most of his worlds and found nothing- then i found his 1 influence resource--all that for just 1---and then i found 1 myself on the other side of the galaxy in a race i was killing and grabed it. Instantly my influence jumped and took over 75% of the entire galaxy. Its insane that a single resource should be that powerful. +59% to all your planets is a huge bonus- no wonder its so overwhelming...the bonus needs to be really toned down by a lot.
other resources are the same though not quite as game wrecking balance...moral resource I had let me crank my taxes way up-25% to all money your colonies make is also a huge resource bonus.
and plus 59% to all your economy from a single economy bonus resource?
haveing even a single bonus resource can make the game very easy.
but its the influence bonus above all that kills it-- anything that can let you take over the entire galaxy by itself is way too powerful and needs to be toned down by a lot.
