Outposts, Gold Veins, and Work Camps

[ItchyDani3l]

It's really unclear which resources are acquired by Outposts and under what conditions.

In my current game I have two outposts, both with Work Camps from the Military Engineering empire skill.

My 1st outpost is founded in a Province with a Mana Node, with a Work Camp (Conduit) in an adjacent province with Rainbow Clover. Outpost shows the net resources as -10 Gold, +15 Mana, and I'm receiving the Rainbow Clover globally.

But my 2nd outpost is founded in a Province with a Gold Vein, with a Work Camp (Research Post) in an adjacent province with Silvertongue Fruit. Outpost shows net resources as -10 Gold +5 Research, and receiving Silvertongue Fruit globally.

The question is, how come I'm receiving +10 mana from the mana node in the province with Outpost 1, but I'm not receiving the +10 gold from the gold vein in the province with Outpost 2.

[ItchyDani3l]

I should also mention that the gold vein is not occupied. It's clear.

[ItchyDani3l]

Okay so upon further investigation, I discovered that the gold vein started with no armies on it, but it needed to be explored still in order to enable the gold production.

I moved my army adjacent to the gold vein, observed that there were no enemies, and assumed it must be explored already. (The gold vein appeared normal, did not say Occupied)

After moving my army on, I received a Gold reward, and the gold vein started working.

[mk11]

Sounds like someone had an event that cleared the defenders but then didn't move on to the vein.

[ItchyDani3l]

Yes that sounds like a probable cause.
I think it might be helpful for the "Occupied" text to show on the resource nodes whenever production is blocked.

I can't think of any scenario in which an occupied node wouldn't have blocked production, or when an unoccupied node should have blocked production.

So in my case, just displaying the "Occupied" text would have been a good indicator for me as a player that this node needs to be cleared, even though there's no armies on it.