Strategic Resources & the Market

[Tha Pink Guy]

I've notices you still can't buy/sell resources in 2.2.5 despite owning them or even having the tech doesn't allow you to trade in the resource, you have to be actually producing it to be able to buy & sell that resources

I personally think you should be able to buy and sell them the moment you have researched them. In the case of rare techs or techs your empire doesn't get access to then maybe adding a Tier 4 or 5 tech which fully unlocks the galactic market so you can actually trade in them. Just make it a rare tech called "Galactic Market" and allow all empires to research it.

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[SeekingEtermity]

Yep. It's especially obnoxious for strategics that you know how to produce and can see a source for, but don't have that source in your borders. A couple games ago I had Living Metal tech, including unlocking the edict that uses it, but there were no deposits in my space so I had no income in it. A neighboring empire had it but wasn't mining it, but I could neither trade it from them nor buy it on the market.

Meanwhile, I got access to Dark Matter pretty early (Dimensional Portal colony event) and was selling it on the market (to whom? No idea) for a long, long time before I (or any other player) had any other use for the stuff.