I started a Space Age Hard Mode run on lower resources and 10x research cost. Then half of a starting coal patch is gone before I researched Vulcanus cargo drop, while only using coal for plastic and rocket fuel necessary to launch science by rockets. By far the most punishing early planet.

Looked for a cause, and the simple coal liquefaction gives only 25 heavy oil for 10 coal. Advanced liquefaction gives only 20 heavy oil! (45 - 25 that it costs), 10 light and 5 gas. This feels pure evil and not well balanced.

I love it, but maybe still boost the stuff a bit especially the advanced coal liquefaction?

In part, this was an attempt to balance Vulcanus compared to other planets. But now I think about it, the resources patches are smaller on Hard Vulc, so this will run into patch expiry problems which isn’t the most fun in Space Age.

I’m open to ideas or to reverting this.