stellaris should have a mechanic where you have to spend trade to funnel resources between colonies, and this being the main use of the abstract trade resource
the nomads DLC has the waystation mechanic now, with resource buffer stations, this system could be generalized to the conventional empires. and hive minds have "logistics" which maps 1:1 to trade under this system also. it is not an expensive graph to maintain even though the degenerate case being that it scales exponentially with the number of colonies, because the number of colonies in a stellaris empire is usually rather small even with a wide strategy, not exceeding 20 or so on a normal map
in fact, the more i look at it the more i assume that whoever made this system had an idea like this but it was just out of scope of the DLC
in fact, the more i look at it the more i assume that whoever made this system had an idea like this but it was just out of scope of the DLC
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