New player - weird question

By kingma15, in Twilight Imperium

Hi everyone

Played my first game ever of TI last night and loved it!! We have lots of questions (most of which can be answered through the living rules referenc or a re-read of the lead to play book)

But one question that I could not see answered was:

If you are using a planets resources to produce units and you end up with 1 resource left over (say you exhaust planets with a value of 5 resources - a 3 and a 2, and end up spending 4 resources on units) do you get “change” in the form of trade goods?

In this example, I exhausted planets for 5 resources to produce units, spent 4, would I get 1 trade good in change? Or is that 1 additional resource just lost?

No, the extra resource is lost to the red tape-dimension.

Edited by Fnoffen
for elaboration.