Perhaps I'm missing something but you often end up with many resources ready to be activated and, more importantly, hundreds of stockpiles.



I can understand that you don't want them to apply automatically (you may not yet have any trade roots so you save this bonus to trade luxury resources). But more often than not I'd like to instantly spend all this gold, spices and so on before I build the next city so that bonus applies for a longer time. And when as Cultist I destroy several cities and get 100 Science stockpile I don't want to click stockpile then "yes" in "are you sure?" popup. I want to use it all. Right now I can't imagine anyone micromanaging all those stockpiles. You just sell them, especially in MP.



So there should be a way to use all. Perhaps there is and I just can't find it cause I'm surprised that stockpiles system is shipped without it. Something like Shift+Click should use all stockpiles/luxury resources, maybe with additional button "Activate all you can" for luxury resources.

Boosters of the same resource don't stack - Only your stockpile suggestion makes sense (and I agree)

Activating, say, two wine boosters at the same time would completely trivialize the unhappiness mechanic, which already struggles to be relevant beyond the early game.

Of course resource effects don't stack. Effect period stacks.



But if you have 20 resources and 1 city you can activate it once and get 20 turns of activation. If you instead activate it once and build a new city in 10 turns you won't be able to activate it again. So for most resources it makes sense to activate all of it ASAP. Or in case if you have 4/turn gold production and you need only 20 portions to activate resource you may want at some point to spend all 200 resources you've stacked over 50 turns and not get reactivation pop up.

Well you're right that it makes sense from a player perspective to, say, activate a stack of 200 wine all at once with one city, and then plop down new cities while receiving the benefits of wine for the next 200 turns without worrying about finding more, but the reason its not allowed is because its imbalanced. Its akin to why they put a limit on how much of a resource off the market you can buy at once, since while it may make sense to you to buy 500 titanium all at once at the lowest demand price, common sense and an interest in balancing lead you to realize that can't be allowed. The fixed duration on the boosters just acts as a check against your expansion. Basically, what you're asking for is a way to abuse the game, which I think we'd agree we really don't want.

So it looks like this suggestion works best for the Stockpiles for now...

greavance wrote:
Well you're right that it makes sense from a player perspective to, say, activate a stack of 200 wine all at once with one city, and then plop down new cities while receiving the benefits of wine for the next 200 turns without worrying about finding more, but the reason its not allowed is because its imbalanced. Its akin to why they put a limit on how much of a resource off the market you can buy at once, since while it may make sense to you to buy 500 titanium all at once at the lowest demand price, common sense and an interest in balancing lead you to realize that can't be allowed. The fixed duration on the boosters just acts as a check against your expansion. Basically, what you're asking for is a way to abuse the game, which I think we'd agree we really don't want.

Well it's not a fair balancing. It's like micro-control in RTS, only this is not an RTS.

It's like adding a weak unit but it's hard to hit it so it's "balanced". Now stockpiles are boring and useless.