Need more ways to spend my metal/crystal in the middle/late game

[Oewyn]

I was playing a multiplayer game against a 7.3 and 7.0 AI and with the new economy, after about capturing 3-4 planets, i was already sitting at max metal/crystal.  I had researched all MKII ships and was pretty close to having maxed out caps for all ships.  It seems that in the beginning(maybe first 30 minutes or so), metal/crystal resources are very scarce as you start building up your fleet but once your fleet is built up, there isn't much you can spend your resources on.  On the previous game i played, the only time i actually ran to low resources was when I lost nearly my entire fleet upon taking a IV planet, and was rebuilding with 8 docks simultaneously.  (Yeah i know i went a little overboard)

Has anyone else experienced this w/ the latest pre releases (last i played was on 1.014G)??

If this problem is common, then maybe we need something to build that costs a rediculus amount of resources, but can help us in some way... So i at least don't feel like i'm wasting so many resources sitting at max metal/crystal.

Maybe like a Research Station which would allow you to harvest 250 additional knowledge on that planet, but cost 200k metal/crystal or something (obviously there would have to be a cap of 1/planet).

[x4000]

This is still in the process of being balanced.  Don't worry, I'm working on making the AI waves and such stronger so that you'll have a use for that metal/crystal, mwa ha ha.  There are other things that I think also will be desirable later with using metal/crystal, but for now that's the main focus of my balance.  The new economy is designed to give the payers more power and options, but also to let the AI have more ships on offense without dragging the game out -- thus to make things more interesting in general.

[Echo35]

Haven't played the patch yet (Just downloaded it) but when I start to make too much money I do one of two things. Crank out more defensive structures, or build more ship constructors. I've had games where I had 4 or 5 ship constructors on a planet with two or three engies on each of them cranking out high level ships real fast. Its a great way to build out all of your ships and get big raid armies fast and push the AI back/recoup your losses. If you've maxed out all your ships and you still have too much money, you either need to attack or play a higher difficulty level.

[liq3]

Yeh, when you have too much resources it's generally not the games fault. You just need to build up more factories, and start producing lots of units and attacking. You'll lose units attacking, which uses up those resources you've got too much of when you rebuild them.