No Oil

Stylesjl

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I am playing a tiny map on monarch difficulty (large Pangea) and there is no Oil :mad: I have researched refining and no one has oil, not my oppenents, or anyone.

Now im stuck with just mideval ships and cavalry.

Version PTW
 
I cannot remember if PTW has the Cntrl shift M, in C3C it will clear the map of things so you can see just the terrain items.

It actually has Crt+Shift+N to set the filtering. Then you can see if anyone really has oil. It could be under a town or on an island. (I think that is the command anyway)
 
It is not under a town or anything because roads are hooked virtually everywhere by most civs and no one can build the oil based units
 
I dont think it is possible for a random map to lack a resource.. sure it isnt on some far off island that you havent found yet? :)
 
All map is explored, every tile, maybe i will attach a savegame

Edit: How do you make attachments anyway?
 
Use the post reply and look for the manage attachment option. IIRC you have to have all resource on a given map in PTW, but maybe not.

If you cannot attach it send it to me directly vmxa AT sbcglobal DOT net.
 
Brain said:
Tiny Pangea? It doesn't look like you even need oil to conquer the world.

For some reason it is two large land masses but i am trying to get an invasion together but im used to having oil to mount one

As for the save game, here it is. Xerses of the Persians
 
Yep...you are most definitely oil-less. I didn't even know that was possible. Well, if you're not gonna attack them with the stuff you have, you could always wait for a source of oil to appear....I'm not sure if they appear whenever or if you need to deplete a source first.
 
Oh thats bad, i guess i'll try to conquer the world with that or just wait for a histograph win
 
Not surprising that there is no oil on that map. No tundra, and only 8 deserts - two of which have saltpeter. I'm guessing this is a wet climate, warm temperature map. Strange things can happen on tiny maps.

What do you need an invasion for? You are only 40 turns from spaceship launch!
 
Is it a scenario or a map you have made yourself? In epic games in PTW there will always be at least one (or is it two?) of each resource on a randomly generated map.
 
Just for my luck i happened to have only conquest enabled. This is not a scenario and i made all terrian at moderate values (Temperate, Normal, 4 Billion)
 
I play only on tiny maps (hate micro) and it can happen from time to time that a resource or two never appear. I even had 3 games in a row where there was simply no aluminium ANYWHERE.
 
It does happen from time to time on a tiny pang maps with 80% water where certain type of resources will never appear. For example, I have run into a game where there was only 7 types of luxuries (one of them were missing from the game completely).
 
LOL. This happened to me but I was Iron-less. I was playing as Japan with no opponets because I wanted to explore how things were made and what certain city improvements did. I was so angry when I found out.
 
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