PaleJackal
Chieftain
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2009
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That is intended. Resources that require a tech to be able to be harvested can be used without that tech if they are acquired by trade.
Mining is the tech that lets you harvest the resource though, whereas Bronze Working lets you get the weapon upgrade. I have Mining, and so I could Mine copper, yet I won't get the weapon upgrade until I get Bronze Working. However, if I receive Copper in trade, I get Bronze Weapons. Maybe it is working as intended, because it represents a civilization giving you bronze weapons in trade, but... I don't know, it'd be nice to have that mentioned somewhere. Maybe it's mentioned in the (somewhat outdated) FfH2 manual.
That problem is corrected in patch Y.
Oh, I know, I've just always seen Kael mention the Iron Orb event as occurring for the *first* player consistently, where it actually happens (or happened) for *every* (human) player consistently... just in case it's important.