Are you finding too little Durantium on your maps?

UnleashedElf

Join Date 03/2013

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Are you finding too little Durantium on your maps?

I have noticed as of late that on abundant maps that there is not much Durantium on the galaxy maps. It seems to spawn a lot less frequently than the other resources such as antimatter and elerium.

Are you experiencing similar issues? I believe that we will need substantially more durantium on the maps for balance purposes. It also makes mass driver weapons not viable.

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lyssailcor

Join Date 02/2004

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Don't know my current settings on my ludicrous map, but I have as much Durantium as Prometion and Thulium, only Elerium and Antimatter are much less frequent.

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lyssailcor

Join Date 02/2004

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So, I looked up my settings: Resource Frequency uncommon, Asteroid Frequency occasional, Nebulae abundant, Black Hole Frequency uncommon.

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admiralWillyWilber

Join Date 05/2009

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My resources are on abundant, so I can always find Duranthium.

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Quoting lyssailcor,

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So, I looked up my settings: Resource Frequency uncommon, Asteroid Frequency occasional, Nebulae abundant, Black Hole Frequency uncommon.

durantium is linked to asteroid. But even when there's plenty on the map, you really don't have enough of it

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Hmm, yeah not sure if this is a problem for others. I'm keeping an eye thought if we need rebalance something.

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this is not the first thread about it.

durantium is requiered for nearly every starbase upgrade. In every game I have played since Retribution (I haven't played a lot of Crusade), I have had a huge surplus or thullium and antimatter and a shortage of durantium and promethion.

Thullium is never used in starbases and elerium is required for nearly all advanced starbase anti-missile ship defenses.

Durantium is required for mining upgrades, for advanced and omega defense, for armor and mass disruptors, etc, etc.

Never enough durantium and elerium

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I think the resource usage should be rebalanced again. It was once, when they changed kinetic weapons from using durantium to thulium. But the whole resource system still seems in disarray, the demand for durantium is higher than for any other element. Occasionally your demand for promethion spikes, but durantium still seems as most needed. Also weapons usage of those elements is somehow whacky. You use thulium for support modules and railguns, so you have to choose which one of those you want to have. Also last tier of missile and kinetic weapons use several units of them each, but Doom Ray costs only 1 Elerium.

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