resource cap question

[theponyguy1]

What are the resource/commerce caps? Does it mean you can't collect above a certain number of resources?

[tniem]

Where do you read about the cap?

[theponyguy1]

Check out the Black Knight's war stories.

[MarkG]

the cap is shown in all screenshots above your gather rates. you cant collect more than your current cap. you can increase your caps by techs or wonders

[HuangShang]

really, then does a cit stop collecting or does he keep collecting w/o increasing your resourses?

[MarkG]

he keep collecting w/o increasing your resourses

this one

btw, your gathering rate is capped, not gathering at all...

[HuangShang]

then what will happened if a unit is qued and u cancel after u hit the resourse cap? do you lose the resourse? of couse someone in that position would really care though

[MarkG]

you dont get it. you do not stop gathering resources. your resources continue increasing.

it is the rate that your resources increase that are capped

[HuangShang]

oh, i missed that part, so what this means is that i could just send some of my cits off to battle b/c they dont add to my *still increasing* resourse pile! thats tight!

[RONS_thesimss]

Not bad thing inside Rise Of Nations

[MarkG]

so what this means is that i could just send some of my cits off to battle b/c they dont add to my *still increasing* resourse pile!

or just "suicide" a couple of them to allow for some military units to be created as you will probably have reached your population limit as well

[bhg_paul]

Or just research another level of commerce technology to increase the cap.

[tniem]

Originally posted by bhg_paul
Or just research another level of commerce technology to increase the cap.

But that would be the easy way.

[HuangShang]

hey cits in war is da bomb! they only cost food so they are so much cheaper! and the do well against arty too

[theponyguy1]

So the cap is the graph thing above the resources? So I don't understand this. Markos contradicted himself.

btw, your gathering rate is capped, not gathering at all...

you dont get it. you do not stop gathering resources. your resources continue increasing.

So which one? Do I stop collecting resources? Or do I keep on collecting.

Say it says +150 on the cap thing, does that mean that I am gathering at 150%?

Is there an individual cap for each resource or do they all share the same cap?