[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Carrying over RESOURCES doesn't earn interest either, and don't even get to keep the resources! While obviously, there's a point at which you are clearly underspending to the a level where you're not competitive, if you're fully utilizing your resource output to create an effective army even without draining all of your gold, there's nothing wrong with this: Keeping a gold reserve is actually beneficial, since in the event of an emergency, you'll have resources you can draw on: If you've already spent all your gold on troops, you can't hire mercenaries(which can appear anywhere in your empire, making them a very good emergency response force), build a lab or temple, build a fort, etc.

Yeah. I changed my mind=) The original "Use all resources" was too simplistic, so now you can assign a value to each resource and each unit. And since gold is intrinsically valuable and storable, while the others are not, it would be assigned a negative value (you are penalized for using it, but you still have to).