Saltpeter discovered

[FIN Marshal]

I was playing an ordinary game Civ, when suddenly I looked were event texts and such goes, and there were two infos saying "saltpeter discovered".

Can anyone tell me what they were and why they were there?

[snoopy369]

I think that's just a generic event where you get a bonus to a tile. (This is BtS, right?) One (or two) of your tiles should have some bonus (don't recall what saltpeter is as a bonus) like an extra hammer or an extra trade.

[FIN Marshal]

I thought so first too, but then I checked all of my tiles and didn't recall seeing any new resources and it definitely wasn't an event. But it may have something like that.

And yes, it was BtS.

[jbp26]

if it was just in the info stream and you didnt get a pop-up, then someone else got the bonus and you were just being informed.

[Unimatrix11]

Or maybe you accidently played civIII - in which case you really have to get more observant...

[snoopy369]

It's not a real resource. It's just a single bonus and not represented by a picture on the map as far as I know.

[rah]

Yeah, unless you see the square with the big ! when it appears, it's likely you won't notice it. But I'll bet one square in your empire is producing more than the norm. But if it's outside a city's fat cross you'll only notice it if you have a settler moving out.

[MattDoyle]

If you open the messages log and go back to the event and click on it it will take you to the tile where it was discovered (if it was you that discovered it). You can then turn the tile information on and see what additional bonus(es) it gave.

[Brael]

I wish this event would only occur on tiles inside a cities fat cross. I had this same event a few days ago and despite the fact that I was only wasting 5 tiles in my entire territory (the rest was all covered by cities), 2 of my 3 saltpeter deposits were found in the empty area.

[rah]

Originally posted by MattDoyle
If you open the messages log and go back to the event and click on it it will take you to the tile where it was discovered (if it was you that discovered it). You can then turn the tile information on and see what additional bonus(es) it gave.

Didn't know you could do a click on in the event log.
Thanx.

[FIN Marshal]

Originally posted by Unimatrix11
Or maybe you accidently played civIII - in which case you really have to get more observant...

Well, I don't have it, so it would be very odd if I mistake the games

Okay and thanks for the info!