If you choose to build a settlement, the opportunity cost will be the benefits you give up, which includes the possibility of obtaining longest road, the extra resources from not building a settlement, and a connection to a existing road / settlement. In another example, you have the year of plenty development card. The opportunity cost of using it on two ore is two brick to build roads or settlements, and one has to consider whether they would value upgrading existing settlements (ore) or creating new ones (brick). Even choosing your 2nd opening settlement and road has an important opportunity cost, in that generally one decides to choose between a common roll (6 or 8) for future resource gathering or a better space to gather the surrounding resources right away, with the opportunity cost being the other choice. Keeping opportunity cost at a minimum raises your chance of winning by lowering the risk of your
If you choose to build a settlement, the opportunity cost will be the benefits you give up, which includes the possibility of obtaining longest road, the extra resources from not building a settlement, and a connection to a existing road / settlement. In another example, you have the year of plenty development card. The opportunity cost of using it on two ore is two brick to build roads or settlements, and one has to consider whether they would value upgrading existing settlements (ore) or creating new ones (brick). Even choosing your 2nd opening settlement and road has an important opportunity cost, in that generally one decides to choose between a common roll (6 or 8) for future resource gathering or a better space to gather the surrounding resources right away, with the opportunity cost being the other choice. Keeping opportunity cost at a minimum raises your chance of winning by lowering the risk of your