I had a map where I wanted my settled cities to be in specific spots / pattern, so I used the same natural resource (Wines) as a visual marker throughout the map. I also had a couple of bonus luxury resources, but my total resources (including normal resources) wasn't even 32.
Late game I started noticing if I settled a new city that had no roads to it, it still had access to all my luxury and strategic resources. I thought this odd (cause I never heard of the resource overflow bug) but didn't think any more on it. That was until one turn after I had settled another new city, and every single city I had no longer had any resources - causing riots and unit constructions to fail.
That's when I found threads mentioning this resource overflow bug and theories around it.
I got rid of the bonus luxury resources I had added, but late game same issue.
I then regenerated the map (cause I didn't want to have to manually go and delete all of the Wines) and I wanted to keep the same rules (cause I had tweaked some of that). This time around I used Wheat to mark where I wanted cities to be. But I just settled another city not connected to anything and it has access to all my current resources - so I've already abandoned that cause at some point I am going to hit the no resources issue.
I thought from what I read, only strategic & luxury resources cause the overflow. Is this a different but related bug? Is there a hard cap on the number of natural resources that can be on a map?
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On a related note:
Is there an alternative natural resources I can use as a visual marker? I never do Victory Point win conditions...I always thought LM terrain was related to that...but maybe not?
I just made a test map that all it had was LM Grasslands cause the editor had this yellow diamond above it. Yellow diamond was still visible in game, so it looks like I can use LM terrain as a visual marker. I tried the other types and they all use a yellow diamond...Looks like I can maybe find some LM terrain mods on here...See if I can't find something visually pleasing that isn't a yellow diamond.
PS. It seems like LM Grassland cannot be bonus grassland? At least the little white dot that indicates that it's bonus grassland is not visible with the yellow diamond...
Late game I started noticing if I settled a new city that had no roads to it, it still had access to all my luxury and strategic resources. I thought this odd (cause I never heard of the resource overflow bug) but didn't think any more on it. That was until one turn after I had settled another new city, and every single city I had no longer had any resources - causing riots and unit constructions to fail.
That's when I found threads mentioning this resource overflow bug and theories around it.
I got rid of the bonus luxury resources I had added, but late game same issue.
I then regenerated the map (cause I didn't want to have to manually go and delete all of the Wines) and I wanted to keep the same rules (cause I had tweaked some of that). This time around I used Wheat to mark where I wanted cities to be. But I just settled another city not connected to anything and it has access to all my current resources - so I've already abandoned that cause at some point I am going to hit the no resources issue.
I thought from what I read, only strategic & luxury resources cause the overflow. Is this a different but related bug? Is there a hard cap on the number of natural resources that can be on a map?
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On a related note:
Is there an alternative natural resources I can use as a visual marker? I never do Victory Point win conditions...I always thought LM terrain was related to that...but maybe not?
I just made a test map that all it had was LM Grasslands cause the editor had this yellow diamond above it. Yellow diamond was still visible in game, so it looks like I can use LM terrain as a visual marker. I tried the other types and they all use a yellow diamond...Looks like I can maybe find some LM terrain mods on here...See if I can't find something visually pleasing that isn't a yellow diamond.
PS. It seems like LM Grassland cannot be bonus grassland? At least the little white dot that indicates that it's bonus grassland is not visible with the yellow diamond...