either in 1Z or yet to be determined. In 1G there weren't much values on anything

I don't think that's how its intended to work. Buildings do things like earn gold and speed production, as do resources. Empty wasteland doesn't really do much of anything.

maybe a little bit ... but less than 25% of the City's productiveness should come from the raw land its sitting on.

Well, that gave me a slight idea. What if a City on a river gets a 50% bonus to all net food it uses?? So a river city using 4 net food actually gets 6 food. It might re-create some of the River-Valley scenarios people keep bringing up ... although im not sure that its necessary.

It really doesn't have to produce anything ... although it makes sense that it would produce "something" like at a foraging value level .. including gold and food as well.

It does, in 1G. When you build a new settlement, it has innate things like food production. It's got no farm, no connections, but can still grow the population a fair bit just on the base production. That's effectively your foraging.

The 1Z stuff looks great though!

Why would a city square generate food? It's a city, you can't grow a whole lot in it. Really, that mechanic has never made any sense, it's just done for gameplay reasons.

Anyway, the model for how production works in Elemental is so different then from Civ that having tiles produce stuff just for the sake of having tiles produce stuff doesn't fit the game.

indeed