or it could be a bit more like earth 2160 where every races could use a variation of two resources? it would make it more tactile in terms of trying to starv your opponent of their resource and a map more varied?

also what is the secret oh mighty meredith, this is one of the things i've dug around in the .odf and never spotted other than the fect the AI doesn't actually recognise the new resource (hence it never builds mining stations aorund tritanium moons)

well I have never done it my self but I think all they did was just rename them to what they wanted to have them called that is all they did just change what the gui says and no one has to know lolz ........

...... I may be wrong.