I'm noticing that asteroids always have 3-4 resources and volcanic/arctic planets have 2-3. This seems wrong, the assteroids should have 2-3 on average, while the volcanic/arctic planets should have 3-4 because they are more costly to build infrastructure on. Or am I missing something?

Ok, I hope you're right.

I had an asteroid with 4 and a gas cloud with 4 spawn last night. 4 on a non-planet world seemed excessive.

Yea, I've seen 4 on an Asteroid too (this morning on my first Asteroid I had 4 extractors, two Metal and two Crystal, felt so lucky). I've seen as much as 3 on a Gas Giant but I'm guessing that even the neutrals can go up t 4 from what Brindle said. And I have gotten screwed by an Ice World that only had 2 Crystal (in the same game as my rich Asteroid, too).

It's great to see random resources be back, though. They add another interesting factor to the game and can increase or decrease the strategic importance of areas. Just add more fun and variation to many maps, I think.

Very happy, Blair. Thanks.

Anotehr major change not in patch notes Just give us back the resource option!

I like it standardized like this and all games having the random resources, it's much more interesting.
But it wouldn't hurt to have the resource option from before..

It would be nice, instead, though to make the randoming more fair between players. Sometimes you end up with one person getting a bunch of 2/2 roids, 2/2 deserts, 4 ice/volcs, while anotehr player has 1/1 roids, deserts, 2 ice/volcs.

Making the roid that is always connecting to the HW be guaranteed a 2/1 or 2/2 would be nice, no 1/1's by hw's. It's too much variance when one person starts with 1/1 and another 2/2, but the other randomness is fine.

I also like that the randomness was extended down to the production level.