Is it just me having a run of bad luck or is coal still just as rare as before BNW but way more important now? *sigh*
I normally either find clumps of it or none at all, seems about 50/50 - normally playing Continents with default set up. If I have none I normally just ally a CS, stick a spy in it and pay 200 to improve the resource. I find Iron to be the same.
1.) Scan map for city states with lots of coal in their border.
2.) Proceed to ally them and gift them 200 gold to improve the tile with coal.
3.) ???
4.) Profit!
this. But beware, sometimes the game decides to give you your coal only after a random number of turns
Except that you have to wait seemingly forever for CS to get the tech to "see" the coal.
Isn't this because the CS has to improve the coal tiles first? It shows up on the resource list even before getting mined.
Well it's not just you in the sense that it's "just as rare" as before. No changes was made to the Coal placing algorithm, so it should be neither more nor less rare than before.Is it just me having a run of bad luck or is coal still just as rare as before BNW but way more important now? *sigh*
The city state has to have the tech and the proper improvements before they will gift it to you. I've had instances where a coal resource is sitting on a mined hill. The allied city state shows coal on their resource list, but I still didn't get the resource and I can't pay to improve the said tile because it's already mined.
You don't have to. As long as you can see the coal, you can pay the city state to upgrade whatever resource you desire.
Pretty sure all that is handled through the AssignStartingPlots.lua, and there are no changes with regards to strategic resources in this file - I checked it myself. Only thing that has changed is some new special conditions for civs that must have coastal start (not just favor it, but must have) - supposedly Venice would fit in this category, although I didn't look that particular bit up.Could just be luck, but BNW map script seems to be better at giving everyone 1 resource of steel/coal and aluminum.
I think they have it backwards. coal should be more common and oil should be the harder one