All depends on your map settings. Aliens still hold the most important resource of all. That is terrain. Terrain contains all other resources except for daylight. You need terrain to build your base on. Everything except oil runs dry eventually, so you need to secure more space before you run out. ...

If your only quibble is automation, I mentioned two methods of automation that are easily implementable and fit right into the game.

Edit - sorry responding to Mehve

I know this is probably premature since the upcoming military balance changes will hopefully fix some of what is wrong with combat, but I had an idea that might make combat more entertaining. I was wondering if making biters avoid attacking walls might cause them instead to run to gaps in the wall o...

umm... choice and freedom by eliminating half of the game you personally don't like doing? Would it be a step for choice and freedom if basebuilding was completely optional and you could only win the game by destroying biters? I think this is simply an overreaction to the combat experience being poo...

Hello, I think removing alien artifacts from the game is a huge mistake, one of the few that the devs have made in the year or so since I have been playing. Alien artifacts are an innovative concept to the game that basically made the aliens, while hostile, also a resource which needed to be "h...