Coal

[ssmith619]

Has anybody noticed how little coal there is on the average map? This drives me crazy when I just enter the Industrial Age (usually around the 1850s, which by the way, is that too late? I am a heavy technology freak and am always better than everybody else, I usuall go for a space victory, although I've only one once with a diplomatic victory) and I research Steam Engine (or whatever is the prerequisite for finding coal) and I don't see a damn bit of coal! I scoure the map for coal (in territory other than my own) but I just don't see it.

The area is usually blacked out, but will I be able to see coal in territory with fog over it that I haven't gotten an updated version of since I traded maps before I discovered coal? How does this work?

Another thing, if I plant a forest in an area where there is already a natural resource (horses, abundant grasslands, grain, etc.) will there be a higher likelyness of coal apearing in the forest?

I guess my overall question is, where is the coal???

Stephen Smith
SSmith619@hotmail.com

 

[Dralix]

Strategic resource placements are set when the map is created. Coal is scarce because it is defined that way in the editor. There should be exactly one source of coal for each civ. That is not to say that each civ will have one, but if you are playing a game with 8 civs, there will be 8 sources of coal, randomly distributed. You can increase that with the editor.

 

[Sentinali]

Ctrl-Shift-M will clear all the crap off the map and make resource hunting alot easier. I usually try to stock up on Calvary units before I get Steam so that I can make a "strategic incursion" if necessary.

 

[Beam]

Agree with all of the above! There is a grpahic mod that makes it easier to find any resource by adding a small balloon with a character to it, C for Coal for instance. Otherwise, in Civ 2 terms why trade when you can fight for it!:rocket3:

 

[Bamspeedy]

Even when you hit control-shift-M, coal can be very difficult to find. Hint: Look real close at the jungles. I had just got steam power and looked for some coal and I almost thought there was only 1 coal in the entire world! (Huge map, 5 billion years, so few mountains/hills). Finally was looking in the jungles and found I had 3 of them in a vast jungle area that I pretty much had control of. When I looked in other jungles I found several more.