Strategic Resources

[J the Terrible]

Does anyone have any problems with the scarcity of most of these resources? I can understand why they are rare, but there have been 3 or 4 games where neither mine, nor the adjacent continents have iron. Any way to change it? Any mods dealing with it?

[Geronimo]

yes, you can alter the appearance ratio for the resources using the conquests editor on the natural resources tab of the edit custom rules screen. A higher appearance ratio will mean more of that resource will be found on a given map played using those rules.

I like to set the disapperance value to zero as well since the random numbr generator that determines if your resource vanishes seems to have an infuriating sense of humor

[Shogun Gunner]

Some people actually prefer staying on the PTW releases to avoid such problems. That and other "fixes" C3C brought.

Did you check the Civ3-Strategy forum? I think there's a mod that does what you want there...

[MacPhearson]

In the editor adjust the strategic resources upwards by 50% to get the PTW settings.


If its not the scarcity its the clumping that gets you.

[J the Terrible]

Thanks for the ideas everyone

[Xorbon]

I forget where I read it, but it should be a +33% adjustment to resource appearance ratio. I've used this adjustment myself, and it does work out to be about the same as PtW. I would think that +50% would make the ratio a bit higher than it was in PtW.

[Shogun Gunner]

Again, something that I have posted in the cIV idea forum that resources should have numeric values with each tile that would give you a concentration of the resource. The more resource, the more you can do with it.

It's a simple idea, and for me, a welcome bit of complexity...ah, I'm sure someone with say "NO MM"

[alva]

IIRC that was the original idea behind it all but the AI couldn't handle it.

[-SafaN-]

something like if u have 1 iron, u can build 1 sword at that time, if u have 2 u can build 2, and for building knights u need a spare iron and horse ...

could be interesting, but its not possible with the engine ... and AI would make that sword in a 1-shield city, while the good city's build archers anyways ...

greatz

[Grim Legacy]

Unless small supplies of those numerical resources were relatively common, it would be a major pain to deal with IMHO. It would also further enhance the power of massive warfare type games, because you'd need to control more territory to cover rapid unit demands.