Do resource quantities make decisions and edicts trivial?

[ColinS]

First run through 2.2.4. I love the design changes and enjoy the planet management... up to a point.

I'm not the best player but I seem to have far more of all the basic resources than I know what to do with. That means I can use the market for advanced resources and it kind of doesn't matter what resource buildings I choose.

As an example, distribution of luxury goods per planet costs me at max 400. That's trivial, I have 4k stockpiled. I have every single decision and edict (apart from influence ones) active at all times.

When I meet a new race who don't like me I just transfer 2k consumer goods to them and they sign a commercial pact.

Is anyone else finding this? Does it even out later in the game? Does 2.2.5 make things cost more?

 

[mergele]

In general yes. If you want to be riding the balance (except for minerals) play a hive mind, though these don't really have planetary decisions and it's more a "can I afford nutritional abundance" and "do I still need extraction focus" question.

 

[Matoro_TBS]

If you have surplus, that means you aren't producing enough alloys and science!