Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-25309944-20150418222705/@comment-5714344-20150418230207

I have some concerns.

1: Why can't they replicate Andasium? (You might want to refer to the second law of thermodynamics. That could solve this issue.)

2: Trade is a two way street. What are the smaller empires selling the Andasium for?

3: Huge Empires will often end up with so much of it as to dominate the market as thoroughly as they dominated war. In fact, it'd be worse, because you can avoid war with someone who outmatches you, but everyone in the marketplace competes with everyone else no matter what. A few huge empires with the ability to collect a bunch of the stuff would dominate everything economically, leaving no room for little guys.

4: It would punish new users for settling near other users, because they'd be settling in a place with less of the stuff around.

5: If you're going in this direction, make it a molecule and not an atom. There are exactly 92 naturally occurring elements. We know all of them and none of them are this. Calling it Andasium, though, implies it is an element, because ium is the suffix for an element.

6: Jerks would hog all of the Andasium in areas near them.

7: This would quickly devolve into a functionally infinite resource because no one would ever want to announce their Andasium supply was 1,000,000 because five seconds later they found out they need 1,000,500 and then a new user joins and announces that he has 1,000,501.

8: It provides something else for users to quibble about and be competitive over. Before they fought over that extra tenth of a tier, now they'll fight over that next bit of andasium.