Resources should not be value-less

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Currently, when doing trading with other nations resources possessed by your rival have a large amount of worth. Resources that you offer to your rival currently have no value and cannot be used in trades or even as gifts to allies or treaty-holders sorely in need of that resource. This should be changed. Either:

1) Give them some appropriate monetary value or

2) Remove them entirely from your side of the trade screen.

If having no worth when you are offering the resource is an intentional design decision then make it very clear that this is intentional. It does you no good to hide that fact and confuse players. If it is not an intentional design decision, then it should be fixed.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes this system is silly. If they have like 50+ of a resource they simply do not want any more, regardless of how quickly they use it or whether they have their own source or not. Even more ridiculous is you can sell them 1000 of a resource at full price as long as you do it all at once while they have none. I imagine it's easily exploitable, say an AI has a lot of money, but have ~200 of a resource you yourself have a lot of extras in, buy their 200 for cheap, now they have none, sell them 2000 at once for crazy high prices.

A system where if they have an abundance they are less interested in buying more makes sense, but it has to actually look at important factors like game stage, number of sources, and then be calculated dynamically rather than all at once at whatever the current price is. It should never be totally worthless, there should be minimum and maximum values.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

And can we please get rid of the artificial distinction between treaties and trade goods?  Why can't I trade crystal or metal for an Alliance or NAP.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top


My favorite now are the NPC's that request assistance and then refuse what you offer.  Seems pointless to ask for help, but then refuse everything but cash (especially when I have practically  none to give).

Cheers!