Strategic Resources: Something new I learned today

[Switch]

Originally posted by steven8r
One thing I am unsure about: What about Nuclear teraforming? A nuke can make desert out of just about anything--even freshwater tiles. Would this prevent a resourse from showing up?

I believe so. Since by the time you can see Uranium, you'd also be able to see every other resource, the only new resources would be ones replacing exausted ones. And I believe someone stated that reappearing resources look at the current terrain, not the terrain from the beginning of the game, a Nuke would alter the chances of resources reappearing there.

Question: What if every land tile is desert? What happense when a resource that can't appear on desert is exausted from a spot that used to not be desert, but now is because of nuking?

[Inverse Icarus]

there was oen game where i found i had one source of coal. i started roading the tile but the coal disappeared before it finished.

[Zanthis]

If there's finite number of resourses in each game, what determines that number? What determins the resource distribution?

I played a game once (large, continants, 12 civs) were there were 8 civs including me on a donut shaped continent. There was only one source of iron on the whole continent.... Right next to Rome

[zorbop]

you can look at that in the editor.. there should be 2 iron-per civ (doesn't mean YOU will have it, a civ could have 3 and you have 1. duh...)
and if 1 disapears, it should reapear somewhere.
zanthis, the other iron would all be on other continents, or on the same square as cities so you didn't notice it.
only 1 on your continent is bad luck