As happy as I'd be to do that for free, it doesn't look like that's possible. I glanced through the relevant files (gameplay.constants, the asteroid mines entities and the racial structure entities) and none of them seem to have a setting to go from infinite to finite.

He wants resource asteroids changed so that they run out of resources. For some time in the beta, all resources eventually ran out and you had to rely on refineries for your metal and crystal, but that was difficult for progression and they were changed to be infinite.

So Fandango wants the old old system back, but it's not doable anymore.

Fandangdo, are you referring to "starting credits" only?, where you start with a million credits, and asteroids don't pony up with the materials (and planets have 0 credits output)???

Just a few things to do it... (send only Karma)

---Set the starting credits in the Player.entity files to a million...

---go through all the planet entities and make the number of resource asteroids equal zero...

---also in the planet entities, make the credit output zero (it's printed several times as taxes, and for the population multiplier, once for each level)...

---Lastly, the HomeWorld tax bonus will need to be taken care of...

(Tkins, who are you yelling at???  it's not necessary)

in the original post:  

this can be interpreted to mean: " to create a mod that sets resources from roids to finite..."

as well as the way I read it as: "to create a mod that sets resources from roids to finite..."

which can mean that instead of getting resources from roids, they are finite