Interesting idea!  I'm not sure if I'm on board with those +2money/industry gains specifically, but I really like the idea of benefitting more the more empires have purchased those, and definitely for some culture/civic/some sort of unique benefit "per purchase" as opening up more mechanics.  Neat idea!

Trade is the benefit: prices should go up. I already adovacted for a market but it won't happen.
While I could understand a gold bonus on an artisan quarter, I've an issue with the production bonus: it doesn't make sense to me.
I like the additionnal slot however.

Cure_off wrote:
While I could understand a gold bonus on an artisan quarter, I've an issue with the production bonus: it doesn't make sense to me.

That Resources Deposit, with the increase in "popularity" and consequently also of the funds, can afford to be better exploited by increasing the workforce and thus being able to produce more

Still not convinced, the game doesn't go that way.

Imagine a game:

1. where a player A has a deposit of tea and a population of 20. The deposit is enough for all 20 pop.
2. By trading it with the player B who also has a population of 20, the deposit is still enough for the now 40 pop and you want to represent it with a slight increase in yield.
3. But later in the game, player B doesn't buy tea anymore, the deposit is only for player's A population. However, said population grew to be 50.
4. As there's no trade, the deposit, while now generating tea for 25% more population than in #2 doesn't get a boost.

A1y0sh4 wrote:

That Resources Deposit, with the increase in "popularity" and consequently also of the funds, can afford to be better exploited by increasing the workforce and thus being able to produce more

And I showed that situations will arise, in which the deposit will produce more without being funded, which makes no sense.

Cure_off wrote:

A1y0sh4 wrote:

That Resources Deposit, with the increase in "popularity" and consequently also of the funds, can afford to be better exploited by increasing the workforce and thus being able to produce more

And I showed that situations will arise, in which the deposit will produce more without being funded, which makes no sense.

On its own the deposit should be able to supply your entire population, if you want to increase its production so that each person would be able to receive even more from the it, you should fund it yourself building infrastructures

Thinking again about this thread I think that even  the buyer should gain something from "better funded" resource deposit. One of my ideas would be to remove the stability bonus from luxury resources and make it depent on empire  buyer (+1 Stability per empire buyer to whoever has access to the resource) and maybe I would extend it even to the strategic resources 

Ps: reading my last post again, I remembered that someone suggested to add natural gas as a strategic resource. I think that these two suggestions might synergies well

After a long time, I chose to publish officially the idea in its appropriate section 

[https://community.amplitude-studios.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/ideas/3019]