A new (4th) resource?

no, hardcoded.

You cannot have pizzas in the game.

Pink Space Ponies: yes

Waffles: yes

Gnomes: ....not so sure....

Pizza: no

JK

But seriously, it is hardcoded to add anouther resource, you could just change one of the TOO pizza's.

i'm not entirely sure this is hardcoded. I know that the reference entity files for the crystal and metal asteroids is in the gameInfo folder. And i am guessing at this point that like strikecraft it may be possible to change the internal parameters fo the entity to reflect something else... like giving bombers missiles as weapons, perhaps a crystal/metal hybrid resource asteroid, or something new you create and list in the string folder, such as say black ore. But would have to experiment with this to actually see what happens in game when we make such changes and if they are recognized or not.

On another sidenote, with the devs changing some of the abilities using anti-matter, crystal, metal, credits (resources), they may be considering adding "new" elements or variables with the expansions. A craftwork system, where differrent elements might be combined might be interesting. Or a conversion of one to another at a percentage basis might be interesting as well, currently they only convert to credits, or from credits of course to metal or crystal.

Something to give a try with though, and something hopefully to look forward too, if the devs are really considering adding some new things. 

I will look into it and let you know what happens,

Take care,

-Teal

But it is. The files are in the folders, true, but the engine reads them and knows what to do with them. It won't know what to do with some new "resource" file. The engine also requires the exact formatting of all the entity files, so adding random new lines to them will make it crash.

While pizza is great I would rather have a Power reasorce where different researchable items (ex dyson sphere, ZPM's) give you different rates every so often(ex 40/sec or somthing) problem is antimatter kinda fills a part of this roll.

ah yes, but nothing requires antimatter to produce. Sadly.

Strike Craft

ah, but only on Carrier Cruisers. And Carrier Cruisers cost money, metal, and crystal to produce. Alternately, an Ability which spawns strikecraft, that while they do expire, expire after an EXTREMELY LONG TIME (like, say, 60 minutes), cost money.

Ah well.

Yes it is hardcoded !!!  Trust me !!!