JFL_Dragon
Civfanatics Staff
If you have only one resource. Eg 2 Silk icons IS there any benefit at all from keeping it (2), or is it better to trade it and then only have 1 remaining.
Resource question ?
- Thread starter JFL_Dragon
- Start date
Crunchy
Chieftain
You can get a lot for trading it so go for it. Tip: sometimes you can do a luxury resource "swap". For example: you have 1 furs and China has 2 gems. China wants a second luxury and doesn't have fur. You trade fur for gems and China is willing to give you other stuff such as techs in exchange. You still only have one luxury but got some techs for your trouble. I learnt this whilst doing a OCC (One City Challenge), I only had one luxury to trade.
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
It doesn't help your citizens at all to have more than one of the same resource. Only 1 is needed to benefit your civ. If you have extra, either trade it, like Crunchy said, or just simply own it to deny it from the AI. You can trade your excess resources for cash, techs, alliances, to help your relations with that civ, etc. Of course, be careful of who you trade with. I almost never give Iron or any strategic resources to my neighbor. Although I will give Iron to a civ if I'm in the late industrial-Modern Era 
.
Edit: In the case of strategic resources, having an extra resource is like having an insurance in case your other source gets depleted, or the road to it gets pillaged. Luxuries can't get depleted, but the road could be pillaged. But in most cases, the benefits of trading out-weighs the risk of a road being pillaged.
.Edit: In the case of strategic resources, having an extra resource is like having an insurance in case your other source gets depleted, or the road to it gets pillaged. Luxuries can't get depleted, but the road could be pillaged. But in most cases, the benefits of trading out-weighs the risk of a road being pillaged.
Daaraa
King
In having extra resources you are denying another civ the resource. In the civ3 democracy game we own almost all the saltpeter in the world. We are able to deny 4 or 5 other civs saltpeter.
The same with luxuries. If they are a big civ, the disadvantage of giving them a luxury is that they will need to put some money into entertainment. In putting money into entertainment they can't put it into science or rushing things. I've seen AI civs go bankrupt by not having any luxuries and having a large population.
As Bamspeedy said I'll never give major strategic resources away. Neither will I give any luxuries away if you are a big civ. In that case it is cheaper to buy the luxury from them for gold per turn than it is to add 10% to your entertainement expenses. I always think long and hard before trading a luxury for another luxury. If I have say 4 luxuries and a fith one will make 3 people happy (with a marketplace) and the other civ has 1 and a second will make 1 people happy, I'll do it then. However, I'll have to throw something else into the trade for it to happen. Usually I give them an obsolete tech. I hope this helped.
PS Welcome to the forum JFL Dragon
The same with luxuries. If they are a big civ, the disadvantage of giving them a luxury is that they will need to put some money into entertainment. In putting money into entertainment they can't put it into science or rushing things. I've seen AI civs go bankrupt by not having any luxuries and having a large population.
As Bamspeedy said I'll never give major strategic resources away. Neither will I give any luxuries away if you are a big civ. In that case it is cheaper to buy the luxury from them for gold per turn than it is to add 10% to your entertainement expenses. I always think long and hard before trading a luxury for another luxury. If I have say 4 luxuries and a fith one will make 3 people happy (with a marketplace) and the other civ has 1 and a second will make 1 people happy, I'll do it then. However, I'll have to throw something else into the trade for it to happen. Usually I give them an obsolete tech. I hope this helped.
PS Welcome to the forum JFL Dragon
