What do I do with gold?

[ploppo]

I am mining gold in some artic-looking place.

I don't seem to able to use gold or process it, etc.

There is no option to trade it via the trade hub thing - I can export iron and other stuff, but not gold.

What is the point of gold?

[DrIstvaan]

Is it Azara Falls?
If so, you'll need to trade it for food as you won't be able to farm anything for a while. If gold for food trade isn't available yet, it will be.

[LadyAquanine735]

Trade it, silly!

[Meister_Leuchte]

there is no use other than trade. as long as there's a gold mine a trade should become available in time.
however i recall getting gold from expeditions in some mission and i kept it sitting in storage for the entire mission.

Originally posted by ploppo:

There is no option to trade it via the trade hub thing - I can export iron and other stuff, but not gold.

Originally posted by LadyAquanine735:

Trade it, silly!

yeah, so much for that.

[PT]

Originally posted by ploppo:

There is no option to trade it via the trade hub thing - I can export iron and other stuff, but not gold.

What mission are you playing?

[ploppo]

It is Azara Falls and I am playing Sanbox. My time played is 150:57.

The trade hub thing has no option to export gold.

[DrIstvaan]

Originally posted by ploppo:

It is Azara Falls and I am playing Sanbox. My time played is 150:57.

The trade hub thing has no option to export gold.

Then the cause of the problem is it's Sandbox; only in the campaign is there a way to trade it for food.
Devs, if someone is reading this thread, this seems like something to look into, especially if the player starts as far from farming spots as in the campaign (I haven't tried Azara in sandbox yet, so I don't know) as the player's only way to get food early is not there then.

[PT]

Yup, we are looking into it this very moment!

[Minoes]

I would love to have maps/ sandbox options that make it so you have to trade for things, because they are hard to get.
Usefull trading is fun. Banished did it quite well.

[LadyAquanine735]

I actually took advantage of that in Eden Crater and Cerulean Vale when it came to old Earth food. I couldn't grow such crops there, so it helped to supplement the alien crop food with Earth food imported from other places. The colonists were especially grateful to me over that one. Plus, I had things the other colonies and the ship wanted, so everybody won in that setup.

I remember doing this very sort of thing for the Zeus/Poseidon and Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom games. Sometimes the map I was playing on didn't have resources I needed for my people, so I would trade for them from other cities, and I sold as many things as I could so my city would get an income. In some cases, my cities got so rich I didn't have to borrow money from other cities or cheat for it anymore.

Of course, there doesn't appear to be currency used in this game, just barter. But then again, this is a brand new world with a small economy, so that's probably why they haven't switched to abstract currency yet.