no oil

[latka]

Has anyone played a computer generated game, where there was absolutely no oil resources?

I am currently playing a game on Diety level and I just can not find any oil at all. Which is probably a good thing, because I am behind in techs and my greatest opponent can not build any better units than I already have becuse there is no oil.

[Vince278]

I didn't think that could happen in an unedited game. Can you see the whole map?

[latka]

Yes I can. I even keep trading Word & Territory Maps with my opponents, just to make sure that I don't miss anything.

[Solomwi]

I've played a few games where I was shut out of a resource, and while searching the map didn't see any of it, but always found some on subsequent, more thorough searches. I've even found coal in my own territory several turns after I finished wiping out Carthage in a war I started because one of their border cities had coal. Oops .

[Gramphos]

It is possible for the map generator to produce sush gaems. Especially on smaller maps.

[Jaybe]

Small, Smaller and Smallest (TINY) size maps ...
Not enough desert, tundra, etc. for oil.
Maybe not enough forest, jungle, etc. for other things (like rubber!).

Small maps very bad. I go for the BIG ONES!!!
I like the long, drawn-out EPIC games.

[Gramphos]

The chance for a resource being missing increases by the longer down in the resource list it appears. And the lesser of the terrains for where it may appear that exists. So practically later resources will be missing more often, and luxuries will be missing more often than strategic resources.

[Dr. A. Cula]

Yes, the RNG can play some nasty tricks on you. I once had a game where the closest oil source was in a tundra square surrounded by 6 to 12 squares of mountains and the damned Iroquois settler got there 2 turns before my worker, prompting me to deflect some Sipahis from the siege of their capitol. I later compensated by annexing Japan. They were still using samurais and they were sitting on 2 oil fields. In another game, my 30 Roman knights started to invade China. During their turn, 30 Chinese swordsmen retaliated. When it was turn again, there only 30 Chinese swordsmen on the map. As if that wasn't enough, my only source of iron disappeared and reappeared somewhere near Beijing. I happened to check the area around Beijing the turn before that and there was no iron there, but it appeared after mine vanished.
But the RNG can also work in our favour: in another game, there was this large remote island, that had a few squares of grassland/tundra/hills and the rest was mountains. I had already settled all the available land there and at the beginning of the industrial era, over a few turns, most of the world's iron, including what was elsewhere in my territory, respawned in the mountains of that island. After I took the Greek and Roman iron mines, America held the world monopoly on iron.

[Nym]

Originally posted by Jaybe
Small, Smaller and Smallest (TINY) size maps ...
Not enough desert, tundra, etc. for oil.
Maybe not enough forest, jungle, etc. for other things (like rubber!).

Small maps very bad. I go for the BIG ONES!!!
I like the long, drawn-out EPIC games.

We can have funny things on huge maps too. For example, in my current game oil resources are not very well dispatched: I occupy maybe 20% of the map and control all oil resources!

[Verto]

Originally posted by Nym


We can have funny things on huge maps too. For example, in my current game oil resources are not very well dispatched: I occupy maybe 20% of the map and control all oil resources!

I've had a similar situation where I had 95% of uranium.

[Gramphos]

Yes, the map generator is not the best on making even maps, and maps with all resources on them...

[Paddy]

How does that song go...\

...you got to dig a little deeper....

good luck in your search for that Texas Tea

[TheArsenal]

Maybe an AI has one under a city. When trading maps next time, try clicking onto each AI’s resource list. If they’re hooked up to oil, it will be listed.

[PeaSoup]

don't forget that you can press CTRL-M (or CTRL-SHIFT-M if you are not patched) to clear the map (and it gets brightens the map) which makes it easier to look for resources

[TheArsenal]

don't forget that you can press CTRL-M (or CTRL-SHIFT-M if you are not patched) to clear the map (and it gets brightens the map) which makes it easier to look for resources

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