Manufactory connects, but doesn't improve gold?

[crossmr]

So I thought I'd drop a manufactory on my gold, since it connected it, and I'd be working it anyway for a huge gold boost..well..it seems that if you do this, it doesn't count for the mint.
It's connected, and you get the luxury bonus/can trade it, but it doesn't count as "improving the resource"
do you think this should count as a bug?

 

[TW_Honorius]

i would say so.

 

[wobuffet]

No, Great Person tile improvements don't improve luxes. Only strategics.

 

[Hyper Nova]

No, Great Person tile improvements don't improve luxes. Only strategics.

This is correct, they made the change for Strategics because they don't show up until you research the appropriate tech. THerefore if you say put down a GP tile improvement on say a Hidden Iron resource then discover Iron Working and find that you could improve the Iron you'd be pretty annoyed that you either can't improve the iron or you have to waste your GP by destroying the improvement. Since this was down to pure luck they changed it to allow you to get both.

However Luxuries always appear on the map so you have the choice to improve or Use a GP. This is a complete user choice and therefore you take the consequence of doing this.