Right now it’s basically like uranium. Used in small quantities, and with very rich deposits. It would be nice if on Vulcanus you could actually realistically expect to deplete your calcite and have to expand for more of it.
Ooh, maybe this should have gone to “hardcore Vulcanus” first. But I suppose it’s the same.

Good idea. I have in fact never depleted a calcite patch.

Does anyone have a starting point on what factor calcite consumption would need to be increased by in order to appropriately incentivize players to seek additional patches? We will also need to bear in mind the difficulty of demolishers in this mod.

I feel like it would make a lot more sense to have the patches be much smaller, the richness should definitely be decreased but it would be interesting if there was a throughput limit on calcite mining. Then exploration of new patches would be tied to expansion rather then just something you have to do over time. Also volcanus desperately needs more reasons to use trains.

Could remove calcite completely from Vulcanis and tweak the research st you can only get calcite from space platforms?

That moves some gameplay from Vulcanus to space platforms seems to go in the opposite direction of needing more gameplay on Vulcanus.

(Note that the calcite patch size on Hardcore Vulcanus was reduced since this thread began.)