kfishy

...except with the Advent and its "scrying" technologies, combined with Mothership's upgrade discounts, you can pretty much explore planets for free.

As someone who mostly reads the forums instead of posting in them, I've noticed a recent trend of people asking the devs to nerf various units and techs in the game, nearly all of them Vasari and Advent. Now, I have no problem at all with incremental tweaks to the game for the sake of fixing exploits and discouraging spams, but this is getting a bit ridiculous. All the units and techs that were singled out are what makes Advent and Vasari different from TEC and each other; by downgrading

The Resource Focus ability does stack. I once had an Ice planet filled with Trade Ports, and it was pumping out crystals faster than I could use.