After playing a lot of games both on and off the metaverse I have only one major issue with an otherwise fantastic game. That is being notified when a Resource is located.

Unless I micro manage my exploration/survey ships I am constantly surprised when a resource is suddenly being utilized by another race and it is in an area that my exploration/survey ships passed through but did not "find" anything. This lack of reporting makes it almost impossible to win an assenscion victory unless it is done via conquest.

There have been too many times for me to count when a resource was quit lierally under my nose that I did not see until after somebody else had already put it too use.

A simple message similar to the Anomaly found stating that a type of resource has been located would be great, if it could also be possible to have automated constructors to find and/or auto harvest resources much like a space miner does with asteroid fields and exploration/survey ships do with anomolies would be even better.

Final note the TOA expansion is great and after a lot of time playing it is still the only game that has made it to my laptop and I have a lot of games to choose from. Please keep up the excellent work and look forward to the next expansion of this great game.