Resources

There are two types of resources a Nation must always keep track of: city resources and national resources. City resources are specific to each City while national resources are used by the entire Nation.

City resources

The three city resources, with increasing Discontent

Each City has three resources that the Nation must keep track of:

• Growth: Determines how fast the City can produce civilian units. When the Growth Bar fills the City will gain a new Citizen. Ways to increase a City's Growth include building Farms or Nets on certain resources and training Farmers and Fishers.
• Culture: When the bar fills the City's Culture Level increases and a positive Event occurs. Ways to increase a City's Culture include building Shrines and Odeons, training certain Specialists, spreading a Religion to the City and adopting certain Laws.
• Happiness: Visible when the city has more Happiness than Discontent. When the bar fills the city will gain a Happiness Level. Each Happiness Level gives +5% Growth and -5% Maintenance. Ways to increase a City's Happiness include connecting the city to the Trade Network, Festival projects, adopting certain Laws, having a positive Opinion with the city's Religion and building Baths.
• Discontent: Visible when the city has more Discontent than Happiness. When the bar fills the city will gain a Discontent Level. Each Discontent Level gives -5% Science, +5% Maintenance and -20 Opinion with the City's Family.

National resources

National resources are refined from natural resources and used directly by a Nation. Some national resources can be bought and sold for Money, with the price slowly increasing or decreasing based on demand. The option will appear by hovering over the resource.

• Regular click buys 1 resource
• SHIFT+click buys 10 resources
• CTRL+click buys 100 resources
• Holding ALT while pressing on an object the Nation doesn't have the resources to produce will automatically buy sufficient resources for it as long as there is sufficient Money.

Resource	Uses	Primary sources	Can be bought and sold
Food	Feeding the population Producing settlers	Farmer specialists Fisher specialists Rancher specialists Farm improvements Nets improvements	Yes
Iron	Producing military units Upkeep of certain military units	Mine improvements	Yes
Money	Buyng resources	Selling other resources Hamlet improvements Village improvements Town improvements Markets Treasury projects Discipline attribute	Yes
Orders	Unit actions Assigning governors Sending councilors of missions Unused orders are automatically sold at the end of the turn	Legitimacy Garrison improvements	Yes
Stone	Producing improvements Producing projects	Quarry improvements	Yes
Wood	Producing improvements Producing some military units Upkeep of certain military units	Cut Trees action Cut Scrub action Lumbermill improvements	Yes
Civics	Producing specialists Producing projects Enacting Laws Establishing Theologies Constructing Wonders Hurry Production Missions	Stonecutter specialists Forum projects Charisma attribute	No
Science	Researching new technologies	Archive projects Wisdom attribute Specialists	No
Training	Producing military units Buying Orders Moving units beyond their Movement stat Assigning generals Promotions	Miner specialists Barracks improvements Ranges improvements Courage attribute	No
Luxuries	Sending them to Cities Diplomacy	Specialists working on Improvements built upon Natural Resources Patrons families	No