2 Quickies

[synyster]

Quick qestions about American UHV's:

1) Can anyone clarify the area that has to be europeans-free? Does it include the area that would be Canada?

2) I doubt this one because I read somewhere that the game counts the resources you have on tiles, but, can any of your 10 oil resources be from the ethanol corporation?

 

[blizzrd]

Quick qestions about American UHV's:

1) Can anyone clarify the area that has to be europeans-free? Does it include the area that would be Canada?

Yes. It is the same area as that defined as North America for the England UHV in the RFC Atlas.

2) I doubt this one because I read somewhere that the game counts the resources you have on tiles, but, can any of your 10 oil resources be from the ethanol corporation?

As I understand it, both the Dutch and American UHV conditions for resources (Spices and Oil respectively) changed a few patches ago to require that you have the resources in your city trade screen.

As to how you get access (i.e. by improving the resource tiles within your cultural borders and connecting them to your trade routes, or by trade from other civs or by corporation), I don't think makes any difference.

 

[synyster]

Ah okay thanks.
I wasn't sure about the resources having read a few different threads about it, but I wasn't sure what patch they were relevant to.
It's just that it seems to drastically reduce the difficulty of getting 10 oil resources if you can use corporations, compared to the change in difficuty for the Dutch UHV where you can't use any corporations.
I'll give it a try & see.