Where does all the excess Resource go?

[Autochthon]

Greetings,

Forgive me if i'm forgetting the obvious, but I was wondering about something...

If Resource is not fully spent on units in a turn, are they wasted? If so, that doesn't seem right. Resource is already handicapped enough in that it's nowhere near as liquid a form of capital as gold.

In most economic models, "hard" capital like Resource is usually stockpiled, re-invested into the local economy or converted into a more liquid form of capital via trade. Like Alchemy, it isn't an efficient exchange, but it's better than being wasted.

Am I missing something here? Maybe it's a game balance issue.

[Zylithan]

Some of resource is raw materials, but some of it is human capacity. For example, your ironsmith can only make so much armor in a month, etc... That can't be stored up (well, I suppose one could say that you could stockpile empty armor suits, but... you'd have to pay for them ahead of time with gold...)

Resources prevent you from instantly raising huge armies from nonfortified provinces.. which sort of makes sense?

I think that is the role-playing answer, and that your guess that it is a game balance issue is also very true.

[Sombre]

I like resources the way they are now, basically, though I think there should be more nations that use the MA ulmish resource bonus in forts, just to a lesser extent.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Well, practically every game that allows you to convert production (resources) into gold also allows you to increase your production and invest into your production.

As Dominions 3 really doesn't have any city infrastructure, you never invest money into resources- so why should the reverse be true?

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[IndyPendant]

I do wish there were a way in the game to use up resource remains. For example, if you have 20 resources in a non-castle province, but want to build a 43-resource leader, you're SOL without a castle. Would be nice if you could build it in three turns (20 + 20 + 3). Or have a stack of units, where there are 15 resources free. The last unit costs 26 resources, so next turn it uses up 11 to complete building the unit...

[atul]

You can build a commander in a province with less resources, just like you described. Only the display of "resources left" is bugged in that case, the commander will be built when the resources have accumulated.