I think my mining is broken, please assist.

**Deathkorpsman** · July 04, 2012, 04:31 AM

I don't know why it took until 160 something BC in the game for me to realize this (I feel really dumb), but I am not receiving any mining income as Sparta. My Financial tab is showing 0 mining income (farming in the tens of thousands and taxes in the hundreds of thousands), even though I have conquered settlements with mines in them. Even stranger is I can't recall ever having the option to build a mine and after double-checking see that none of my settlements do. Any mines are still there in territories I've conquered, though some are marked as (Barbarian).

I checked an older game I played as Rome and it is the same there. The only mines in my faction are ones the game started with or ones in territories I conquered. I have regions with precious metals but no option to build a mine and 0 mining income. Don't ask me why this never occurred to me before. The best answer I have is that I just look at what is available in the build queue and go from there. I didn't stop to think about why mining was basically nonexistent in my game because I was having too much fun with it! I'm also giving myself a pat on the back for doing so well without the mining. lol

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If necessary, I can drop this problem in the bug thread. Wanted to make sure it was legit first. Thanks in advance.

**Hannibal Baca** · July 04, 2012, 04:59 AM

I think u shoud build some workshops .For making for making items from gold.

**Maurits** · July 04, 2012, 05:11 AM

If I'm right there is no mining income in RTR VII, just tax and trade. The 'mines' represent a tradable resource, just like wood or fish, which can be traded after certain industries have been developed. The vanilla RTW 'mining income' has thus been integrated into the general trade.

**Deathkorpsman** · July 04, 2012, 05:13 AM

I have settlements with workshops. Some of them are greyed out, some aren't. Some of the ones that are greyed out are in the same settlement as mines (conquered territory) but I'm still not receiving any mining income. Seems like a glitch to me.

**Maurits** · July 04, 2012, 05:58 AM

Like I said, there is no 'mining income', for it has been integrated in the general 'trade income'. Where you'd first have 1000 trade and 10 mining, now you will just have 1010 trade (for example). This is more historical, since there's not much point in mining when the resources aren't being traded after they've been dug up from the mine

**Deathkorpsman** · July 04, 2012, 07:39 AM

Thank you for the explanation. Seemed a bit odd to me, since all the tooltips for resources on the map still indicate a need to build mines, but I can live with it knowing it is a bit rough. I'm still able to build blacksmiths and goldsmiths and such, so I'm getting ore from someplace, lol. I'll need to double check and see if some of the regions that don't have mines are exporting the minerals available in the region. If they aren't exporting the resources, I'd be a bit confused still as to why I can't build a mine to capitalize on them.

**Muizer** · July 04, 2012, 12:27 PM

Income from tax and trade are massively scaled up compared to vanilla, but we can't do that with mining, so we applied trade and tax bonuses there as well.

**Deathkorpsman** · July 04, 2012, 06:54 PM

That makes sense. It was just really confusing with some places having mines and some not, along with the resources on the map having tooltips saying to build mines etc. I believe I'm up to speed now, I was just really worried I was missing something or a huge glitch was happening. I'd love to get a better explanation of how the resource->workshop->trade->income progression works. I looked at the thread in the feature highlights, but it seemed a bit vague (understandably so). Mainly I'd like to know what the best way is to check that my resources are being properly utilized. Trade summary for every individual settlement?