There will be things we can do with tile blockers to limit the size of planets. One thing that we have done is that tile blockers are way more expensive and requires energy but no minerals to remove and they will take an awful long time to remove (hindering you to develop the planet in the process). You can also do some other interesting stuff with tile blockers with events, riots, poverty and bombardments. You could probably destroy a tile if a planet are heavily bombarded for a long time and place a tile blocker you have to clear... say a rubble tile or the like.
Rebellion on a planet could destroy a few tiles on the planet and so could invasions.
I might also wait for Paradox plans in expanding on the strategic resources and see what they have in store before we explore too much on that regard. They said they would do something with strategic resources in the next coming patches.
We do want to avoid creating mechanics that Paradox will make null and void even before they are finished... we also MUST make sure the AI can use stuff as well as the player otherwise it will just be a mechanic the player can exploit, this will not create a satisfying experience.
What we are planning are making damn sure there are too much stuff you want to do and make sure you are always feeling a pressure on not having enough resources. This is important to us. In the vanilla version once you get to a certain stage you can just do pretty much everything and have plenty of resources over to max out your fleet, you maykiss that strategy goodbye in this mod. There are NO chance you will ever have enough resources to do everything, you will always have to choose between several things to invest your next sum of money or industrial capacity.
So, no worries... clearing tile blockers is NOT easy in this mod... if you invest heavily into it you are not doing something else such as colonizing or having a nice infrastructure for your war fleet.
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