on the second, I have found that if you click directly upon a resource in your city of influance you can build without the need for the tech. So that is another bug but a work around as well.

yes this is how it works also if its right next to town you get the  build option from town menu.. otherwise you have to click the resource.

Dang, I thought the 'being able to build stuff w/o researching the tech' thing was just enabled for the Beta so we can get to the late game quicker.  Personally, I don't like being able to build mines & such withouth researching mining first... 

And we really need to be able to build lumber yards (or whatever they're called, mills?) in regular forests.  Maybe let old growth forests grant more resources, but right now regular forests are useless.  At least I haven't been able to build anything on them in this current build.

Sounds like a good idea. I mean if my people can cut down trees to extract usable wood - why can't I do it to a "regular" forest as opposed to one of the "special" forests? Less efficient, yes (get less, consume more - maybe you'd need 8 tiles of space instead of 4 and get like 0.25 wood (1 wood per 4 turns) and/or cost more time and gildar to get running), but it should yield something, I would think?

Lord cobol,

it does.  Humans cant seem to wear fallen armor (i like the way it looks better too   )

and for some reason i cant always get female characters to wear cloaks