Use more ressources than gathered

[damale88]

Hello,

My native langage is french, so sorry if my english is not very good.

I'm new at this game. I've been playing this game for about 20 hours yet. I like this game, more than i've liked Age of empire.

I play on linux mint LMDE 6, with the french version. Everything is going well, no bug. Only pleasure.

For the moment, I'm playing offline against the computer, because I'm not ready to play against good people.

But there is something that I don't understand when I look at the stat at the end of game, I've noticed that the computer use more ressources than what it gathered. I've took a screenshot (even if the screenshot is in french, you'll understand) to show y'all.

Can someone explain it to me ?

I've noticed that case when I play at medium, but not when I play at easy.

Sorry for my english again and thank you.
Sorry if it's some noob question or if it has already been respond (I've tried to search in the forum, but i didn't find answered to my question)

[Lion.Kanzen]

Is it due to trade?

He says: collected and I don't think trade falls into that category. 

[Gurken Khan]

Hi @damale88, welcome to the forums.

Trade, as @Lion.Kanzen said, can contribute to it, but also starting resources. In this case I think the collected treasures played a big role: if those are 300 each, 10 treasures would mean 3,000 additional res.

I think res trickles currently are not counted as collected but that will change with the next release.

[Lion.Kanzen]

8 minutes ago, Gurken Khan said:

collected treasures

Good point.

 

8 minutes ago, Gurken Khan said:

res trickles

Yep

[Lion.Kanzen]

Just now, Lion.Kanzen said:

Good point.

 

Yep

All of this should appear somewhere, treasures income, trade, etc.

[Gurken Khan]

One source of resources I forgot is loot. Killed units give a bit of loot anyway, but if for example you send all your stone gatherers to fight and don't let them drop off what they carry that stone will go to your enemy.

[Atrik]

To sum up resources that aren't "gathered" and can be used are:

• Starting resources
• Treasures
• Barter
• Trade
• Tributes
• Loot (Base unit loot + their carrying resources)
• Tickles (From civ Bonus like Ptolemies, or buildings like wonder, Persians palace, ice-house... relics, in a27 more units produce tickles...)
• Cheat codes (Rarely enabled when playing MP)

I think it's a exhaustive list.

[Lion.Kanzen]

2 hours ago, Atrik said:

To sum up resources that aren't "gathered" and can be used are:

• Starting resources
• Treasures
• Barter
• Trade
• Tributes
• Loot (Base unit loot + their carrying resources)
• Tickles (From civ Bonus like Ptolemies, or buildings like wonder, Persians palace, ice-house... relics, in a27 more units produce tickles...)
• Cheat codes (Rarely enabled when playing MP)

I think it's a exhaustive list.

There is a task to be done.Or at least open in gitea

@Stan` @wowgetoffyourcellphone

 

[damale88]

Thank you everyone, I'll try to notice if those explanations seems realistic

[Gurken Khan]

1 hour ago, damale88 said:

I'll try to notice if those explanations seems realistic

I suggest looking into a replay so you can see what your enemy has and does and no guesswork is required.

[Genava55]

On 07/01/2025 at 3:37 PM, damale88 said:

Thank you everyone, I'll try to notice if those explanations seems realistic

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