dang why is metalloid so hard to get i keep getting really low to the point where i almost get stuck
Yeah, this game suffers from what I call the Aurora effect.
Basically, in Aurora, the most widely used resource is called "Duranium"
Duranium is used in most everything, in much higher amounts than the other resources. The issue is it has the same generation rate as the rest, making it run out much quicker, when that happens it's called a Duranium Crash, the most widely used resource running dry and pretty much the entire manufacturing part of your empire grinding to a halt. Metalloid suffers this same fate.