Well that is off-putting. Guess I'll learn the languages first and figure it out myself, I'm probably just asking because I'm looking for reassurance that this kind of thing would be easily doable coming from zero, which I know it is not.
"Tech gates" could be totally justifiable. In the example that you've presented, yes indeed it is stupid and silly. You may have missed my suggestion that traders of a more advanced era may rarely visit and trade for more advance tech is possible, so you can buy "shiny guns" but they will patronize and cheat you out of your goods because you are savages to be taken advantage of. Seems realistic to me.
"Tech gates" could be totally justifiable. In the example that you've presented, yes indeed it is stupid and silly. You may have missed my suggestion that traders of a more advanced era may rarely visit and trade for more advance tech is possible, so you can buy "shiny guns" but they will patronize and cheat you out of your goods because you are savages to be taken advantage of. Seems realistic to me.