A world without marble

[Panda]

I recently finished a game which lacked marble alltogether - not a single source in the entire world!

Was this just a 'freak accident', or did the fact that I played on a 'rocky' map a role?

Has it happened to anybody else that one type of resource was missing entirely?

 

[dutchfire]

what mapsize did you use?

 

[Panda]

what mapsize did you use?

Large size, and balanced.

 

[Rex Tyrannus]

I've never had a map with an entire lack of one resource, but I did just play a large pangea with only two horses. I went to war just for the horse.

 

[rilke]

I played a map without horses. That kind of messed things up for some of the competition.

 

[SonicX]

I think it would be interesting to have some resources lacking all together, talk about rewriting history ...

 

[jimbob27]

I dunno what I'd do if I played all the way up to physics only to discover there was no uranium.

Cheat probably

Give 2 sources to my weakest neighbour (for me to take) and another to my strongest enemy (to make things fun).

 

[Pantastic]

If you play on a 'great plains' map there will be some missing resources and some much rarer than usual (there's usually less than 5 fish-type resources on the whole map), though I think most of the 'needed for unit' ones are around.

 

[Panda]

I played a map without horses. That kind of messed things up for some of the competition.

That's even worse than no marble. In the end, all it meant for me that I passed all world wonders except Oracle.

Come to think of it, it propably worked in favour of me. If any of the AI had had marble, I doubt I would have built the Oracle.

I dunno what I'd do if I played all the way up to physics only to discover there was no uranium.

Cheat probably

Give 2 sources to my weakest neighbour (for me to take) and another to my strongest enemy (to make things fun).

I had 'No cheating' ticked so it was out of question.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Now maybe the AI built cities on top of the resources, or they were in some obscure corner of the globe.

 

[einherjar_LC]

I had game recently without horses.

Large archi on noble.

The real pisser of it all is that I was playing as Isabella.

 

[Panda]

Now maybe the AI built cities on top of the resources, or they were in some obscure corner of the globe.

I checked underneath every city, nobody had marble.

And there were no islands either. I guess that's a 'balanced map' feature?

 

[n0xie]

Balanced maps don't have marble...

 

[Panda]

Balanced maps don't have marble...

Oh.

That sort of explains.

Not that it makes much sense...

 

[Yzman]

What is this balanced map option? I must have missed it.

 

[balthamael]

Balaced gives everyone a share fo iron/copper/horse.

I had an oasis map yesterday with no Horses iin it at all, And ont tile of alimininum. (which i got and won SR)

 

[asylumlost]

Map Im currently on has one marble.... in the middle of an ice field, on the other side of the world from me.

 

[Yzman]

Where is the balanced map option? I would never want to do it, but have never seen it.

 

[Hristo]

Where is the balanced map option? I would never want to do it, but have never seen it.

You can selected it when creating a new map. For instance you can choose Pangea, continents or balanced.

 

[Meffy]

It'd be nice if there were a map analyzer that could do pretty much what you'd do if you were to open the world editor to check to see whether a map is worth playing on or has some major defect -- it could tell you the situation as a go-no go thing without spoiling any secrets and ruining the game for you if the map's fine as is. I've given a little thought to how one might write such a thing... Hm, we'll see.