Favourite resource.

What is your favourite resource? Research, Morale, Military, Economy or Influence.

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My favourite resource hands down is Economy resources. They tide me over my $$ woes, until I get the more advanced governments. Also they are always handy and useful throughout the whole game.

Next is morale, but late game, I can easily keep my morale at close to 100% easily without this resource and with high tax rates.

Research resources don't seem to do much for me not sure why, don't seem to speed up my research too much, though the full 30%?? should be significant??

Influence resources are great , they are enough to make colonies within my influence move to 'pirate symbol' but takes a while for them to flip.

Military resources I find are less useful early game, where you are armed with low value weapons (1-3 attack), so the bonus (rounded down), comes to almost nothing. Once you start hitting ships with 6+ attacks , military resources start to kick in by adding 1 point here and there.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hands down the economy resource, a couple of these babies fully upgraded and you cash problems are over forever!

Second would probably be the influnce resource... again very powerful... Ive never seen the research or military resources do much so I usually leave em alone unless the are just laying around.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Economy, because you can simply never have too much money.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Military resources are awesome! A couple of fully upgraded military resources and your ships will rule even if you're way, way behind in weapons research.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
"First you get the money, then you get the powah. When you get the powah, then..., then you get the woman."
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
...Theres a woman resource?
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
$ ECONOMY $

In any game where I start with a solid economy I have a great chance of winning because everything else seems to fall into place.

More happy peeps (My Yor tend to like farms... they need food to reproduce.. ) = more money and infuence.

I think that its rather difficult to focus on research too early, or military in my experience.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Military all the way. it helps mid and late game a TON, and with powerful ships you dont need to build more than 3 or 4 of them to take over the galalxy. Just mortgage your whole economy, get the crazy ships and own the universe.

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Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'll take the research every time. If I have an economic or morale also that is good. My military is usually stronger than anyone's (once I build it) because of my stronger research, so I don't care about the military resource nearly as much. And the influence resource is nice to have around.

But the faster you can research the better for everything. And a few econ starbases can do wonders for research and military production as well.