Finding Saltpeter?

nikola79 · Jul 17, 2005, 07:45 AM

What are the chances of saltpeter appearing when you discover gunpowder?

Theoden · Jul 17, 2005, 07:58 AM

Saltpeter will always appear when you discover gunpowder. Whether it will be inside your territory depends on the number of civs vs. the mapsize.

Invisible Rhino · Jul 17, 2005, 09:09 AM

And what sort of territory you have. Even though desert squares are not the best for growing, a lot of good resources appear on it.

kojimanard · Jul 17, 2005, 10:35 AM

As a general question, does anyone know, using the default settings, whether there are standard numbers of strategic resources per map size, and if so what they are? There are, of course, fewer in CSC than earlier versions.

ComradeDavo · Jul 17, 2005, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Invisible Rhino

And what sort of territory you have. Even though desert squares are not the best for growing, a lot of good resources appear on it.

Indeed, it's always worth settling desert areas asap, to claim the resources that appear later in the game! Same with Tundra, oil oil oil!!!

Ansar · Jul 17, 2005, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Invisible Rhino

And what sort of territory you have. Even though desert squares are not the best for growing, a lot of good resources appear on it.

What you talkin about bad?

Agricultural civs rock on desert, its AWESOME!

ainwood · Jul 17, 2005, 05:32 PM

If you use CivAssist (see link in my signature), the "Miscellaneous" tab has a resource finder - will locate any resource for which you have hte pre-requisite tech on any explored tile on the map.

Invisible Rhino · Jul 17, 2005, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by AnsarKing101

What you talkin about bad?

Agricultural civs rock on desert, its AWESOME!

Haha. Well, okay, its still not "the best" for growth is it?

Ansar · Jul 17, 2005, 06:04 PM

No, I guess you're right.

FireStorm5 · Jul 21, 2005, 12:00 AM

I once had a game (standard size) where across the entire map there were only 3 saltpeter(unless I missed some), but almost nobody(including me) had any saltpeter that game.

azzaman333 · Jul 21, 2005, 12:52 AM

AFAIK, there is a minimum amount of each stratigic resource on the map (not sure whether difficulty level changes it) . On regent i think there are 8 horses, 8 iron, 7 saltpeter, 7 coal, 6 rubber, 6 oil, 6 aluminium, 6 uranium

FireStorm5 · Jul 21, 2005, 12:56 AM

It might have been a smaller map, i cant remember. Also one large civ could have been hording it all. I hate it when alot of one resource will appear close together in one civs territory.

azzaman333 · Jul 21, 2005, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by azzaman333

AFAIK, there is a minimum amount of each stratigic resource on the map (not sure whether difficulty level changes it) . On regent i think there are 8 horses, 8 iron, 7 saltpeter, 7 coal, 6 rubber, 6 oil, 6 aluminium, 6 uranium

I forgot to mention that the data is for standard map size with 7 AIs.

Abdomination · Aug 19, 2005, 03:51 AM

It's usually better to settle near plains because they contain the same resources, or settle on the edge of a desert and then expand culturally

Jul 17, 2005, 07:45 AM	#1
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Invisible Rhino Prince Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Los Angeles, USA Posts: 413	And what sort of territory you have. Even though desert squares are not the best for growing, a lot of good resources appear on it.

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kojimanard Warlord Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 230	As a general question, does anyone know, using the default settings, whether there are standard numbers of strategic resources per map size, and if so what they are? There are, of course, fewer in CSC than earlier versions.

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FireStorm5 golden popcorn Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 43	I once had a game (standard size) where across the entire map there were only 3 saltpeter(unless I missed some), but almost nobody(including me) had any saltpeter that game.

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FireStorm5 golden popcorn Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 43	It might have been a smaller map, i cant remember. Also one large civ could have been hording it all. I hate it when alot of one resource will appear close together in one civs territory.

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Abdomination Warlord Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 132	It's usually better to settle near plains because they contain the same resources, or settle on the edge of a desert and then expand culturally

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