So I am thinking of a way to solve a particular issue. I've created a slow resource revelation system, whereby resources are revealed based on technologies.

As an example:
Gathering > Bananas
Harpooning > Pearls, Crab, Fish
Art > Dyes

The problem is that, as in the first Banana examples, plantation technology had not been developed, yet. But gathering allowed for early humans to take advantage of these resources on a limited basis.

Solution #1
So I've thought of thought of adding a pre-improvement that will give limited bonus. In this case a "Banana Camp" may only yeild +1 Food instead of the +2. I know the plantation is +2 Food and -1 Production but the worker also has to remove the jungle effectively making it a +1 Food tile. So this solution doesn't have much of a negative compared to later plantation technology. If removing jungle produced a production gain (like forests) then this could possibly work.

Solution #2
We could still have the "Banana Camp" but because plantation technology won't be invented until later, the resources "dries up" periodically. Meaning that part of the time it WILL NOT yield a +1 Food gain. This will probably work better. I just need to figure out how to make it happen technically -- my guess is I'll have to do it in the LUA.


Ideas? Suggestions?

(I am going to borrow civ artwork and maybe just change some color and/or textures around for this. It takes me tooooo long to do 3d-art. I'd love some volunteers!)