Hello AKFortyWAR,

You might want to try my mod Heavy Nova 2.

http://letosilvermane.googlepages.com/home

I have made a variety of changes from the vanilla game to improve resources.

Each player's home system starts with 3 metal and 3 crystal asteroids.
The home system asteroids are 50% more productive than normal. This balances out the high credits from the large starting population and home system tax bonus.

I doubled the extraction rate of all asteroids.
I more than tripled the refinery rate so they are worth building now.
I doubled the effectiveness of extraction technology from 5% to 10%.
I doubled the number of levels of population technology.

Finally, I increased the range of the slow, medium, and fast settings. While I don't play that way, a side-effect of a balanced mod is that is scales smoothly. If you play with the fast settings, you will be building very quickly and swimming in resources. Just beware, the AI has been improved as well and they may raise large fleets and crush you if you can't keep up.

Good luck,
Silvermane

Edit: I wrote a program that mods every planet, ship, module, and technology setting the properties to whatever I want; so changing them all and tuning them all is no big deal for me.

Here is another approach. Start with your favorite mod, then edit Gameplay.constants.

Find:
incomeSpeedData-Fast
incomeRateGameSpeedScalar 0.30

Replace .30 or whatever value is there with a larger number such as 3. This will give you more credits.

Then find:
sellPrice 0.8
buyPrice 2.4

Raise the sell price and lower the buy price. This will allow you to buy and sell minerals and crystals cheaply.

Since gameplay.constants isn't compiled, you can edit it without affecting other changes that are part of the mod.

Theres a mod that gives you 10 resource astroids on original planet and huge number of logistics and tactical building.

When I activate the mod ingame the game freeze and it says:This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it an unusual way.What do I do?(I have v1.191)

Its Heavy Nova 2.

I just dump a ton of starting cash on--problem solved, no mod required--but the extra resource mod is in the official mod downloads--though I think it may be pretty dated (i.e., not Diplomacy compatible).

under the downloads button at the top of the forums

yeah, I like what ricksgalaxy has done

he keeps everything pretty well up to date as well

Why are these forums so evil!?