no coal...anywhere in the world???

[quinalla]

JBW, does India have the tech that allows them to see coal? If not, it won't show up on their diplomacy screen even as coal(0).

-quinalla

[Gonk]

yeah I played a game where one nation had the ONLY supply of saltpeter in existence. So you know I just HAD to go and wipe them out. Worst I've gotten is there being about 9 billion deposits of coal and iron, and one oil, saltpeter, and rubber on the ENTIRETY of the map. And don't get me started on uranium, I had one map where it was found only way up north in a civ that was still in the middle of the industrial age. The Panzers took care of that really fast.

[kailhun]

No resource at all. Hmm, Does this make the game buggy or more interesting? I think the latter.

Resources only on one continent I have seen.
I've also noticed resources drying up, and bloody quickly too.
I think that in the Chieftain game I'm playing (trying to adapt to Civ III rules), I've lost 2 iron, 2 salpeter and 2 coal. The salpeter thing was annoying because the greeks had just build a city next to 2 i was using, so those were lost to me as well.
The Greeks don't exist anymore though.
Stange that as well. Two cities and when I told a hoplite to leave my land or declare war ... they declared war! Oh well, their funeral.

BTW Are resources ever found? You know: the city of [blank] has just discoverd [oil]. Huzzah!

Robert

[wisecat]

Yes, there could be new resources found!
Every turn when you have your citizens working on some square within city radius they stand a little chance of discovering a new resource on that square. Dunno if it applies to luxuries and bonus resources as well, in my experience I only had a new source of iron found once.

[neilr]

I had exactly the same problem - playing as one of 16 nations on a huge map, I discovered Steam Power only to find not a single coal square on the whole world map: pretty annoying as I'd just generated an extra ten or so workers to cope with the railroad-building.

Eventually though, ten or twenty turns later, without warning, I suddenly noticed coal near one of my cities, on an unmined hill - further scouting around revealed three or four coal squares.

So yes there was coal - but not until well after I discovered steam power, and also completely unannounced.

Maybe coal is never found before a certain date ? Perhaps if you discover Steam Power too early you just have to wait ? (mind you, I was in the 1800s)

[SCLZ]

Originally posted by wisecat
Yes, there could be new resources found!
Every turn when you have your citizens working on some square within city radius they stand a little chance of discovering a new resource on that square. Dunno if it applies to luxuries and bonus resources as well, in my experience I only had a new source of iron found once.

On more than one occassion I've exhausted a supply of Oil only to have it replaced with another in the very same turn!

Funny feeling going from hopping mad to enjoyful all in less than half a second

[Der PH]

Originally posted by neilr
Maybe coal is never found before a certain date ? Perhaps if you discover Steam Power too early you just have to wait ? (mind you, I was in the 1800s)

Definitely not!
Recently I discovered steam power in the 17th century and immediately found coal.

[Padmewan]

Resource disappearance has nothing to do with whether the resource is "used up;" it's just random. Hypothetically, it's possible for the coal, heretofore invisible, to disappear before you even discover Steam Power!

[Sherkon]

No aluminum!!!!

This sucks!!! There's no aluminum anywhere on the planet! No advanced planes, no modern armor!! I was playing a military game for the first time (having disabled all the other win options) and now I can't build any good stuff. The game AI should be smart enough to always create at least one of each resource.