Yes, and map size too especially Earth part size.
Yes, also Nightmare handicap is good property control challenge too.
@Thunderbrd
For Tea, is easy to reproduce.
Tea is revealed at Cuisine (TechReveal) and made available for cities and trade (TechCityTrade) at Spice Trade. There are known problems with the hover over indicating what improvement is needed to provide it.
Yes we may need to put back a number of these "duplications" so that the AI "knows" what the player does.
I followed what DH said but this doesn't sound bugged in the least. Just because the hover on the plot is telling you that you'll need a particular improvement to collect a resource doesn't mean the nation can use it once you're able to collect it. You must also have the tech that enables it to be 'traded' to be able to have it show up in your accessed resource list. That tech CAN be later than the tech that is required for the improvement that taps the resource. This might be a little confusing for a player and perhaps begs for a set of design rules that suggest that no resource should be tradeable upon a tech that comes later than the tech that allows the construction of the first available accessing improvement, but it's not bugged technically and is a legal design setup.
I don't know if lumberjacks access tea, but they DO access hemp and apples and lacquer because one can collect the benefits of these resources in different ways. For hemp you have industrial hemp or weed (marijuana). If you're primarily accessing for industrial use, you should be accessing it with a lumberjack and raking in production from the plot. If you're primarily accessing for recreational/medicinal use, then it should be the plant collector method and be getting more gold than production out of it. Apple trees are incredible building products with great wood properties. That's not the best way to get food and gold out of them so you can either lumberjack apple resources or plantation them, again, production vs food/commerce. Lacquer comes from tree sap from trees that can also be harvested for production materials, including the lacquer itself if routed to state use(production), vs sales of the lacquer for mostly private citizen usage(commerce).
I went through the XML before I posted my response. BtW Apple needs Orchard not Plantation. In general Orchard is for food plants while Plantation is for commerce plants. Wine/grapes are special. This is why there is a Fruit Gatherer and a Plant Gatherer improvement also. The Plant Gatherer also allows access to Tea btw.
No. Just no. There are lots of bonuses that should be possible to improve before they can be used in a city or traded. Most metals were used in jewellery long befoer they could be worked into tools or other goods. It is also extensively used in building requirements.
All very good bits of general info. I appreciate it, even if I may not come to recall it all.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I threw that out there to see if the argument could be made better than I could and you answered that call admirably.
The only available upgrade would be a Mountain Mine, which comes available later than normal mines. So how is it a bug that the upgrade fails? As soon as the Mountain mine becomes available, a quick reset to that plot will use all the built up time to upgrade and you'll have the Mountain Mine in one round.
It's working as designed. Because the improvement can normally work to upgrade to a mine on most plots, the trigger to start building to an upgrade happens then. It was complicated to setup and some situations required this loophole. Trust me... it's working as intended.
I think I can look into that still if you're on the latest assets which I think you are. Might be a day or two tho.
And the miniDump, I forgot
Yes, current SVN on the Alien Solar Map v. 1, with PPIO and Raxo´s No Lattidude and Longitude Limitations modmods.
Weird, I didn't get this error when I was testing my changes.
