[Edratman]

Conceptually I can agree with Agema that trading off unused resources for gold at some ratio makes sense. Resources could be viewed as iron ore that has been mined, but not smelted and forged into usable items, rather it was sold to some other end user.

The game does equate resources and gold in a significent manner in the pretender set-up screen where you have the choice of increasing/decreasing one and decreasing/increasing the other.

With that said, I'm happy enough the way things are and unused resources does not cry out to me as an issue that requires modification.