Economic Assessment

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At the end of every 7th day your settlement is assessed. Any work your population has completed becomes available, and their needs are compared against your current resources. You may build structures in which your people can work. You may also choose how to spend culture, gold, or other advanced resources at this time.

Settlement Needs
You will need to provide 1 point of Food, Shelter, and Security for every 10 population. A settlement with 159 people will need 15 Food, 15 Shelter, and 15 Security. Note that you cannot have negative resources–if you fail to meet your needs in a given week the next week starts from zero, with productivity penalties applied to what your production would have been from population and Quintessence Engines.

Preserving Resources
Most basic resources that are not consumed or preserved disappear. Population does not disappear unless you aren't meeting their needs for other basic resources.

You may spent 1 point of Culture to preserve up to 10 points of basic resources. Once preserved these resources will last until they are consumed or converted (sold, traded for Morale, etc.)

Advanced resources do not need to be preserved and will never disappear.