Spending Resources and Influence

Category: Rules
Many effects in Twilight Imperium require a player to spend resources or influence.
To spend a planet’s resources or influence, a player exhausts that planet’s planet card. 
* For example, if a player needs to spend two resources to produce units, he can exhaust a planet that has a resource value of “2” or instead exhaust two planets that each have resource values of “1.” The player could exhaust a planet that has more resources, but the excess resources are lost.
*Exhausting the planet for resources means that the influence is unable to be spent for the remainder of the round (i.e. the whole card is exhausted) 
Outside of the agenda phase, players can also spend a trade good as if it were one resource or one influence.