And then there is no iron

[rdomarat]

I once, after gaining control of my entire home continent, amounting to 54% of world land area, found out I had no oil. Unfortunately for them, the idiots on the other continent sold me some, which I used to build a big pile of Tanks and Bombers, with which I then went over and took over their oil, as well as the rest of their earthly possessions.

With the exception of 54% of world land area (I believe it's only around 6%), this sounds very familiar to me for some reason. If only I could put my finger on it.

 

[Stile]

One side effect of limited resources is it's hard to trade your luxs for others. The AI trade with themselves forever. In my last game in which I was locked out, I was the Byzantines on a standard Emperor map. I went to war with the Koreans with the main objective of taking their wine and breaking up a few of the AI deals to force them to trade with me. While I was at war I discovered Refining and found I was oil-free, but that the Koreans had three. Thus I went to war for wine and got a bunch of oil, instead of the situation to which rdomarat is referring, going to war for oil and getting a bunch of whine.

 

[jm chen]

Once when playing original Civ3 (not C3C) I got a random map with NO luxuries. Thought it might just be my island, so I played for a while, and scouted. There were horses and iron, but there was not a single luxury in the entire world.

Don't know how it happened and thank goodness, it hasn't happened since.

 

[player1 fanatic]

I think that chances for getting less luxuries are higher on smaller and archipelago maps.