Stockpile
What happens if a player cannot afford any stockpile bid in the Demand Phase?
The designer answered this in two threads, and the rulebook's $0 bid and trading fee notes agree.
- sethvanorden · Designer · 2016-03-24
- sethvanorden · Designer · 2015-06-21
- Bsobol1 · Designer · 2015-06-21
- Stockpile rulebook · Rulebook · Demand Phase Steps
A player can always take a pile. Bidding $0 is allowed, and there is always one pile per player, so the player needs money only for their own bid. A trading fee the player cannot pay yet is kept face-up until they can afford it.