How can I insert resources?

[Snydeman]

Hopefully someone can elucidate the solution to my problem.

I am in the middle of playing a Civ game that I absolutely love..just the right balance of civs on the map. Only one problem:

My civilization, though spanning a very wide variety of terrain types, does not have any coal. You can imagine my dismay. Apparantly there is only one source of iron on the whole map.

Is it possible to "insert" a special resource onto the map using some saved game editor? I frankly don't want to cheat - I want to give each civ some coal to make things reallly interesting - but I can't seem to figure out how to use any of the current editors to do the job.

I do NOT want to restart a new game using a new .bic file...I just want to edit the map in my current saved game.

Any ideas?

 

[Bjorn Bjornson]

actually, i think the easiest thing to do in this case is to remove the coal requirements from everything. cuz im pretty sure that terrain and resource data are created during the game/map creation, and i think any editing of terrain and/or resources will make those save games unplayable.

anyway, thats just what i would do - cuz it wouldnt be andvantageous, cuz every civ would be free of needing a certain resource

what i mean is make a backup copy of civ3mod.bic, then just edit the resource requirements - i think if you do just that you should be able to continue to use the save games... i was able to continue use of saved games after adding 2 units...