Resources
Throughout the world of Saiadha are Resources ripe for the taking that can enhance City resource output. There are two types of Resources - Strategic and Luxury. Both can be harvested via Mines within your Territory, collected as Quest rewards, traded via a Trade Outpost, or used to fulfill Quests and sway factions in Diplomacy. Strategic Resources are used for Unit upgrades and District Improvements. Luxury Resources boost various parts of your Empire, be it approval, fortification, and increased FIDSI output in your Cities/Camps, increased experience gain on your Hero, and more.
Basic resources
There are five basic resources in Endless Legend 2. Together they are called FIDSI and stand for:
- Food is stored on a city-level. Every population consumes Food. If Food is positive the population progressively grows. If Food is negative the population progressively declines, starting with the ones that consume the most Food.
- Industry is stored on a city-level and is primarily used to create units and structures or be converted into another resource via Convert Actions, but can also have more exotic uses like powering converters or allowing landscaping. If a City is not using Industry, it will store up to one turn of their production as surplus. The surplus will be instantly added to the next construction when one is ordered. Everything that costs Industry will show the number of turns it takes to complete next to the cost.
- Dust is stored on an empire-level and is primarily used to pay for army upkeep, accelerate constructions via Buyouts, purchase Strategic and Luxury resource, or bribing minor factions, but has numerous other uses as well.
- Science is stored on an empire-level and is used to research technologies.
- Influence is stored on an empire-level and is to build Foundations, attach or evolve Camps, and conduct diplomacy with other empires.
Cities can convert Industry into other basic resources. Which conversions are available depends on what technologies the empire has researched.
Strategic resources
Strategic resources are used to construct more advanced Units and Improvements as well as unlock Unit Specializations. They are harvested by building Mines on strategic resource deposits and can also be bought and sold. More rarely they can also be obtained from quests or by defeating powerful monsters. Every empire can store up to 30 of each strategic resource. There are 6 strategic resources:
| Resource | Deposit tile output | Deposit movement cost | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium | 3 Science | 2 | Revealed by sheared outcroppings, the unmistakable shine of Titanium means that a light, strong metal is waiting to be extracted. |
| Glasteel | Heated to high enough temperatures, the curving leaves of Glassteel plate melt into a hard substance with restorative properties. |
Luxury resources
Trade
Trade is a straightforward process. After constructing a Trading Post, unlocked with the Era 2 Tech “Markets,” you can freely buy or sell any Strategic and Luxury Resource. Click on the resource icon in your main view to bring up a small window where you can buy or sell this resource by the unit, and in case of Luxury Resources activate their booster effect. The price of resources is determined by the demand for it, so as more players buy a resource its price will increase and will decrease once nobody is buying. These trends are shown in the window with a little arr ow next to the price.
