the costs are simple.
lets say you dont want to swarm, just basic summon a character per turn.
just follow the numbers on the top, thouse are the recruit costs.
preaty much just look at what turn it is. If its turn 5, during your build phase you add a resource so that it is turn 5 on your side as well and then summon the cost 5 character.
character costs are reffered to drops in players terms. because you drop that character during that turn.
1 drop - Harley Quinn
2 drop - Encantadora
3 drop - Super Girl
4 drop - Bullseye
5 drop - Killer Crok
6 drop - Spiderman
7 drop - Psimon
8 drop - silver surfer
9 drop - Onslought
10 drop - Phoenix
preaty much if you dont want to swarm and just flat waste your resource points during the recruit step then just bring out the designated character. now if you want to bring out multiple characters, then its all a mater of math.
Equips do cost resource points. so lets say its turn 5 and instead of bringing out a 5 drop you prefer to bring out a 4 drop for this scenario we will say its a bulls eye, so you bring out bullseye and then you want to equip him with Either Titanum sword or Twin Fire arms, you can equip him with either or but not with both since characters can only be equipd with 1 item. so lets say we want to increase his attack instead of giving him burn, so what we do is equip him with Twin fire arms and thats it, your resource points from here on are completly spent.
or you can summon out 2 2drops and 1 1drop or 1 2 drop and 1 3 drop etc..
heck you can even summon out 5 1 drops (aslong as they arnt multiples of the same character unless its an army character.)
preaty much thats resource points and how you spend them when recruiting.
the Treshhold like dlaanan explained is preaty much the number on location's and Plot twists.
Preaty much aslong as you control enough resources to play a plot twist then your safe to play multiple plot twists with the same cost.its turn 5 again and you want to play Dark Embrace, you cant because its cost is 8 so you would have to wait till turn 8.
but lets say your the attacker and have 4 path of destruction, then you can play all 4 because the costs for path of destruction is 2, yes when you summon it all up its going to be 6 but since plot twists and locations are only looking towards how many resources you control then its fine. you can spend 10 cost of 2 plot twist and you wont be doing anything bad because you control more than 2 resources.
and thats preaty much it.
