Have the map creation resource scripts changed?

[Ahriman]

Have the map generation resource placement scripts changed?
Because I just updated to the latest patches, and tried a game (on a Lakes map) and copper was very rare, while all the iron was at the polar extremes.

Has something changed here? Is this intended?

 

[smjjames]

well there were two new map scrips added, the tectonics (which replicates the way real world tectonics would work) and an earth2 script.

Were you seeing this with one game or several games on the same map type with the same settings?

 

[Ahriman]

Just one game on the Lakes map, thus far. I've played this map many times without such unusual resource placement.

Posting a save.

 

[smjjames]

Well sometimes you could just have bad luck with the map script, try doing a couple quick starts on that map and look in WB to see where the copper and iron are.

I'll take a look at the save though.

edit: did you look around the map in WB? the copper didn't seem too rare, although rare for the number of civs on that map.

I normally play on Pangaea maps, so I can't analyze this one very much.

 

[westamastaflash]

i love the tectonics maps :-D

 

[Ahriman]

I'm definitely noticing that copper seems to be clustered at the poles in most maps now. Very strange.