Guys, I think it's about time we start some deep analysis! *puts on lab coat and glasses
We have three screenshots. Let's call them
exhibit A
exhibit B
and exhibit C
Let's start with exhibit C. Zoom please:
Here we see the resource tab. First is C-shaped icon, most presumably Credits (gold, money, pounds) followed by diamond-shaped one. I'd assume it's some kind of resource that can be extracted from planets and asteroids. As we can see on exhibit C, Withyr IA and one of the asteroids are marked with Diamonds. However no other planet is marked with this, indicating it's not a common resource. Probably generic "rare resource" pool or "precious metals/gems". Which would also explain why a diamond is its icon.
Next one are three resources. It guess they are Physic mana, social mana, and industrial mana. It might indicate Stella uses similar resourcePoints system as EU. Or they might be just research points for each category. In both cases, it means research in these three branches is done separately. There's no single "research point" pool.
Next icon is blue person-shaped. Might be for Manpower (used to man ships) or Population (used to colonise new worlds) or something related to psychic powers (one of the devs hinted something about light psychic powers being present).
Last one is something 0/0. Probably some mid-late game resource or resource used only by some races (such as gate capacity used/max for Hivers in SotS).
One last thing i would like to point out. Exhibit A please:
As we can see, there's no Credits icon but rather we have Energy. Looks like different races might use different resources. Or treat different resources as important ones.
We have three screenshots. Let's call them
exhibit A
exhibit B
and exhibit C
Let's start with exhibit C. Zoom please:
Here we see the resource tab. First is C-shaped icon, most presumably Credits (gold, money, pounds) followed by diamond-shaped one. I'd assume it's some kind of resource that can be extracted from planets and asteroids. As we can see on exhibit C, Withyr IA and one of the asteroids are marked with Diamonds. However no other planet is marked with this, indicating it's not a common resource. Probably generic "rare resource" pool or "precious metals/gems". Which would also explain why a diamond is its icon.
Next one are three resources. It guess they are Physic mana, social mana, and industrial mana. It might indicate Stella uses similar resourcePoints system as EU. Or they might be just research points for each category. In both cases, it means research in these three branches is done separately. There's no single "research point" pool.
Next icon is blue person-shaped. Might be for Manpower (used to man ships) or Population (used to colonise new worlds) or something related to psychic powers (one of the devs hinted something about light psychic powers being present).
Last one is something 0/0. Probably some mid-late game resource or resource used only by some races (such as gate capacity used/max for Hivers in SotS).
One last thing i would like to point out. Exhibit A please:
As we can see, there's no Credits icon but rather we have Energy. Looks like different races might use different resources. Or treat different resources as important ones.
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