Even if you aggressively take as many cosmite nodes as possible you still won't be generating a ton of it. Mods have a high cosmite cost and cosmite is a fairly rare resource - particularly given the amount of it needed to produce colonists and higher tier units. I was never really that excited about it but at this point I think it hinders the game's design more than it helps it. Not that I'm opposed to that - the sector system is the one area of the game that my opinion has cooled on since release. I think a similar solution would work well here, but the sector system would have to be retooled. I remember city spam was a big issue when AoW 2 first came out, and that was solved through increasing the minimum distance between cities. On the other hand, AoW is one of the only 4X series that's still doing unlimited expansion. On the one hand, a lot of people do seem to dislike it.

I honestly really don't mind the city spam but it's enough of a problem for others that I should have mentioned it.

Good call! I missed a couple things in my criticism post, though to be fair I've played the game a fair bit more since then so maybe they just weren't as obvious to me.

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