Jos Elkink wrote:The extra clicks should not be necessary ... this simply means there is a bug and you can join projects passed the limit ...
I just ran through all my characters and on every resource project I had to manually click my participation. So I'm guessing it was over the limit. This bug could really screw up your plan!

Also I wanted to highlight something someone said that got missed I think.
If you don't have food you die. This makes food have a higher demand then say steel. If I control all the towns with a food source in region, I could sit on my food, let the other towns trying to trade me steel die from no food, then walk right in and take control and mine my own steel.
It would create trade between my nation and theres only if we both HAD TO have each others goods. I don't need there steel to live. They need my food.
in real life we have so much extra food being farmed that the supply is higher than the demand, so the food is cheap and easy to get ahold of. If you put a limit on how much food there is then demand skyrockets!
If I were me I'm going to take the town that I own, let everyone around me starve, then just walk in wihout conflict and use the resources.