Increase Value of Unchosen Resources | Board Game Mechanisms in the Universe

As an astronomer, I see the universe in everything that I do, including board games. In this series I’m taking a random walk through some of the board game mechanisms as listed on Board Game Geek and talk about where I see them at work in cosmic objects and how we study them. This time it’s Increase Value of Unchosen Resources.
Additional resources:
Board Game Geek page on the Increase Value of Unchosen Resources mechanism: boardgamegeek....
This Breathtaking Map Traces Hydrogen Throughout the Milky Way: www.smithsonia...
Why 21 cm is the magic length for the Universe: bigthink.com/s...