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my max National Morale bonus for Luxuries has been +50 (6x) which reflects 2x each of the other three commodities.

this sounds about right... the best clarification yet. [&o]

Clearly part of the problem is the over burdening of the word luxury. It's used at least 3, and probably more, ways. In Labor Allocation we see that "Luxury = Spices + Luxury". So Luxury the trade item, Luxury the labor allocation and Luxury the morale bonus all very different inclusiveness. [X(]

Simply, I think the manual could have used more professional technical writing. Even though it's 94 pages, for a game this complex, that scales down to about the 6 page flyer that comes with an ordinary RTS. Before you even worry about the hidden mechanics, there are even many screens that are woefully under explained. [:(]

OTOH, 3 cheers for a game that's deep enough to provoke this complaining. [:D]

I agree with you on all counts, willgamer.

Another thing that is confusing me about the Luxuries: see the below screenshot. The game is telling me my population will consume 22 wine, 22 spice, and 22 luxuries, but no textiles and that this will add +150 to my National Morale. Yet according to the manual, the +150 morale bonus is only gained by consuming eight multiples of these commodities. I am not consuming any textiles at all, yet I'm going to get +150 for this? And is that "22" number the final multiple? Does that mean it is two multiples of 11, which is the base?

was that on turn 1 or later? (turn 1 data seems especially iffy...)...

No, that's on turn 5 or 6 I believe.

Wow, I have no idea what's up with that!