Resource Caps

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Limits on numbers of resources allowed to be used or stored.

Players very often handle different types of resources in games and acquiring more is usually beneficial. There may however be limits on how much of a resource can be collected, either for balancing purposes or for practical issues of having to provide enough physical tokens (or not to have to handle large amounts of them), and these limits are Resource Caps.

Examples

Age of Empires series


Each land area in the board game Advanced Civilization has a Resource Cap on how many units can be sustained there, and this makes players wish to expand there territory to avoid having them be removed due to starvation. Origins has a similar functionality but here all units a players has are in use always - either as producers, consumers, or population on the game board, or a 'locking' tokens regarding innovation, population actions, or brain functions.

Using the pattern

Containers Inventories Units Arithmetic Progression

Resource Management No-Ops

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Balancing Effects

Limited Resources

Rewards Penalties Character Development

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History

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