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[DEPRECATED] Everything's Removable

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Make all resources removable so you can, say, put a district or wonder on that tile. A builder can harvest any resource.

When you place a district on, say, diamonds, it doesn't get rid of the diamonds. And once that district is completed, you will get the diamonds for amenity purposes.

When you place a district on, say, horses, it doesn't get rid of the horses. And once that district is completed, you will get the horses in your stockpile.

So, in a completely unmodded game, when you build a district on a harvestable resource (stone, or wheat), the game puts up a dialog box that says "Are you sure? Will harvest the [[Stone]] on this tile." However, it doesn't actually harvest that resource. The stone is no longer accessible, because there's a campus on it, but the resource is still there. And the city never receives the harvest bonus (one-time production) for doing the harvest. So that's how Firaxis programmed it for the already-harvestable resources.

I searched all the moddable code and could not find a way to force the resource harvest when placing a district. If there is a way to do it, it's in the deep code that only Firaxis can change. But it's also entirely possible that it is functioning this way intentionally. Here's what I mean. When you don't know where a resource is early in the game (say, uranium) the game lets you put a district on it, without disturbing the underlying resource. To the player, the resource is invisible, but to the game, it's right there on that tile and the game doesn't want to get rid of it. Thus, building a district on a legitimate resource tile works the same in both situations... whether it's a visible, harvestable, resource (stone) on an invisible potential resource (uranium)... the district co-exists with the resource and the resource has its full value.

Visible resources are either harvestable or not... ones that are harvestable co-exist with districts on them and grant all the normal resource benefits (+ amenities for luxuries, or + stockpile for strategic). The ones that are not harvestable cannot have districts on them, ever.


So here's the choice we have:

a) play the game normally... cannot build districts on tiles that have luxury/strategic resources (i.e. disable this mod)

OR

b) make all resources harvestable (as this mod does)... but the smart player wouldn't actually harvest any luxury/strategic resources, but instead build districts and wonders on them and still get the full benefit of the underlying resource

b2) since resources are harvestable it introduces a tactic to harvest away your enemy's luxuries/strategics... e.g. I take a city, but knowing that I can't hold it, I harvest away the niter/oil/uranium/aluminum


- For strategic resources (niter, oil, etc) they become harvestable at the tech that reveals them
- For all resources that can be improved by mine, plantation, etc, they become harvestable at the tech that unlocks that improvement
- Amber and Oil (the resources that spawn on land and sea) need to be set manually (otherwise one could build a harbor on an oil sea-tile prior to plastics)