Resources

In Planetarion, resources are used to buy anything from ships to structures to waves. There are three types of resources:

• Metal
• Crystal
• Eonium

You collect resources from the following:

1. Any asteroids you have. Each 'roid produces 250 units per tick.
2. Any Refinery-type structures. There are Refineries for each resource type. They produce 1000 of that resource per tick.
3. The Core Extraction technology branch

Also, there are bonuses that will increase your resource production:

• Engineering: Setting Mining as an engineering priority increases your production of all 3 resources. 1st priority gives you a 15% bonus, 2nd priority is 10% and 3rd priority is 5%.
• Finance Centres: Finance Centres are a type of structure. Each one you have increases your bonus by half a percent.
• Golden Roids: If you have the Metal, Crystal or Eonium Golden Roid, you get a 5% bonus for production of that resource.

Finally, you can gain resources thru the 'Hacking: Resource Transfers' covert operation.

From Round 2 up to and including Round 9.5 Eonium was spent as fuel when launching ships. Now, Eonium is a regular resource.

Terran ships use primarily metal, on a 4:3:3 ratio. Cathaar ships use primariliy crystal, on a 3:4:3 ratio. Zikonian ships use primarily eonium, on a 3:3:4 ratio. Xandathrii ships use an equal proportion of resources. Eitraides ships use a roughly equal proportion of resources, depending on what race the type of ship they are building belongs to.

Also, there is a page in game called 'Mining' where players can Initiate asteroids, Donate Resources to the Galactic Fund, and trade resources.