Understand your empire's resources and points

Before you spend, check which resources belong to a planet and which are shared by your empire. One colony may have plenty of minerals while another lacks the resources it needs to build.

Resource or points	Used for	Managed
Minerals	Construction and manufacturing.	On each planet.
Microchips	Technology, building and ship costs.	On each planet.
Hydrogen	Fleet and probe fuel; some manufacturing costs.	On each planet.
Food	Supporting the population and covering certain costs.	On each planet.
Power	Supplying facilities and maintaining their efficiency.	As a generation and demand balance for each planet.
Credits	Purchases, services and other economic operations.	Your universe wallet shows the shared available balance.
Science	Starting research.	Across your empire in that universe.
Diplomacy Points	Activating and maintaining policies, paying for annexations and other uses.	Across your empire in that universe.
Components	Paying for recipes and advanced developments that require them.	In the inventory of the planet where they are made or delivered.

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Check your stockpile and production together. A food reserve of 2,000 with a negative balance is running down. A small supply of microchips with positive production is a shortage you may solve by waiting or adding factory workers.

You need transport to move physical resources between colonies. A planet’s available power does not supply the others.