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When you start a new game, there is a checkbox next to each resource which allows you to completely disable that resource on the generated map. You can start a new game with no resources at all, and the game allows it without warning. I mean, if the target is to launch a rocket, then the only resource you can do without is uranium.

So why are those checkboxes there?

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over 4 years ago - /u/Klonan - Direct link

Its a sandbox game, we give as as many tools as we can for players to create their own challenges.

There a many reasons a player might want to disable a specific resource, and maybe many others we don't even know about, and of course mods can multiply the reasons.

The question here is less why, more, why not? We don't want to tell players how the game should be played.