So...what use do resources actually have?

[Kordanor]

I just about finished the area around york and I am wondering what all the resources I have actually good for. What can I do with them?
I get the use of salvage as you need it to craft weapons. But you find so much stuff and because you also get salvage by scrapping armor, you have far more salvage you could ever need for your weapons. At 1/3 of the game, you basically have all the best weapons and shields you can have in the game (without the best random enchantments, but these arent that important).
Hide is needed for crafting armor and very scarce. So that is a useful and valuable resource.
Slaves can be used to speed up crafting in your village. Though you are never really shown why you should actually care about this.
Meat can be eaten directly or be converted into rations. But coming by with these resources is extremely easy as there isn't a limit of people you can send hunting. (also the hunting grounds in the camps don't degrade due to a bug, but this won't matter too much as you don't need to camp that often anyways)
Rations can be "crafted" by using meat. As with meat it's far too easy to have more than enough of it.
Herbs don't have an immediate use but can be converted into medicine.
Medicine however can be used to heal wounds. However, After leaving skjern the game gave me 140 medizine for free (probably a bug) and after 1/3 of the game hardly anyone of my characters get wounded in combat as the combat is so easy (insane difficulty) due to maxed out items and skills.

So my resources right now are:
215 Wood - Will need that for building structures, but I don't think I'd every need to buy any
99 Salvage - I have no use of it anymore, even equipped bow shooting characters with best shields already
20 Hides - Scarce resource. I need much, much more for crafting armor
279 Medicine - Basically no use
21337 Valuables - Can I actually buy anything with it other than other resources and harbor space/buildings?
725 rations - Basically no use as I am just eating meat most time
317 Herbs - Can be converted to medicine which has almost no use to me
0 Slaves. Could buy some of them to speed up building time
55 Meat - will be converted to rations on next rest

So my question to you is, whether there is any additional use of any of these resources which I didnt see yet. Eg. can you improve Skjern in any way by valuables outside of building structures..
Or should I just sell all the Salavage, Medicine, Rations, Herbs and buy Hide (for armor) and Slaves (for buildings) for it?
Speaking about buying, prices are also still broken. Everything costs and sells for the same at every single vendor, independent on reputation and demand.

[WotanAnubis]

Eh, if you go back to Skjern and give your mom 10,000 Valuables, you improve the Prosperity of your Clan, which can be helpful down the line.

That's about it.

[Kordanor]

Cool, thanks!

[Kordanor]

Just found that the trading is even more broken than I thought it was.
I took Orkneyar and got different prices there. And they were in fact so good, that I made profit by just buying and selling goods to the same vendor. Buying 150 salvage for 135 hides, then buying these 135 hides back by paying 122 salvage and so on.

So...you basically have unlimited resources of everything.

[Marcus]

Originally posted by Kordanor:

Just found that the trading is even more broken than I thought it was.
I took Orkneyar and got different prices there. And they were in fact so good, that I made profit by just buying and selling goods to the same vendor. Buying 150 salvage for 135 hides, then buying these 135 hides back by paying 122 salvage and so on.

So...you basically have unlimited resources of everything.

hahaha, game is still in alpha give it a chance :)

[monkbel]

Originally posted by nightside187:

hahaha, game is still in alpha give it a chance :)

How is it in alpha? It was released last month.

[deadsanta]

Everything can be converted to valuables, which every 10k can be given to your mom and boost clan prosperity by 2. I did that like 11 times. You need a group of good traders to do it with fair+ prices. Also, I just trade salvage for thralls and hides, as soon as I get a 1:1 hides/salvage vendor. In fact, most of my goods got traded for hides until everyone had armor, and then I just sold everything for cash.

[Kordanor]

Yeah, wasn't aware that you could actually do this multiple times.
Great way to do something meaningful with your resources (though the resources system itself is quite broken).