Gotta get them bronze deposits!!

[Jeff Stewart]

This is interesting, something I didn't know.

"Q: Where does titanium come from?
A: Titanium is an abundant element. It is found in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, China, Australia, Russia, as well as other countries."

http://www.alleghenytechnologies.com/titanium/pages/help/faq.htm

[Henrik]

Originally posted by eNo
I had a history teacher who thought you could mine steel.

A history teacher?
One would think that atleast this teacher would know what steel is (whit the industrialization and all).

[RedWhiteArcher]

ContradictioN
Titanium wasn't found only recently. The commercial use for it was only found recently. Titanium itself is not rare at all, but the dificulty of mining it makes it expensive

[Chowlett]

There is indeed a Titanium alloy, in fact several alloys I believe. Titanium steel is I believe one of the more common. It has the benefit of being both strong and very light.

[Provost Harrison]

Same with aluminium...before modern electrolysis techniques, anything made of aluminium was quite highly prized and expensive, despite it being the most abundant element in the earths crust. It was there, but they just couldn't get the stuff out. Now they can with relative ease (and bucketloads of electricity).

I suppose the bronze resource could consist of the presence of both copper and tin resources on the same square, although it would make it more interesting to have to find both copper and tin resources on the map so you can make bronze

Besides, I never saw this in any of the previews; plenty of iron resources once you discovered iron working, but bronze just seemed to be taken for granted that it existed.

Titanium is an element in itself. There are alloys of titanium, ie, titanium is one of the components such as certain types of steel.

And why does that not surprise me for a history teacher? My history teacher once said, when I was 14, that I would fail all of my GCSEs and never get anywhere. 9 GCSEs, 4 A-Levels and an Oxford degree later, I have every right to go back and blow raspberries in her face

[Steve Clark]

I've been playing Imperialism II alot recently (a civ-type game far better than EU) and I think they had the most simple, yet elegant resource model (for a civ-type game)...

1 tin + 1 copper = 1 bronze
1 coal + 1 iron = 1 steel
1 iron + 1 iron = 1 cast iron
1 wool + 1 wool = 1 fabric
1 cotton + 1 cotton = 1 fabric
1 timber + 1 timber = 1 lumber
and so on...

The resources are spread out logically (iron in mountains, etc.) much like the specials in Civ2 but instead of just adding to trade and shields, they add to your warehouse so you can use them to produce derived resources, to buy/sell and of course, to use in producing units. It appears that Civ3 is heading that way. In fact, I believe that it can pick up alot of things from Imperialism II that would improve upon Civ2.

[Theben]

I'm pretty sure that both civ1 and civ2 mentioned in their civilopedias that bronze is an alloy of copper & tin. My guess is that Firaxis did indeed include bronze deposits, (for Greek special unit) but decided not to divide it into separate components for balance & gameplay. After all, oil still needs to be refined to get any decent use out of it.
I just find it amusing.