How Many Resources to Add?

[caesarmd]

Hello! I'm a complete newbie modder and have gotten frustrated surfing the site to find specific answers, so I'm gonna just ask.

Whats a good rule of thumb for how many resources to add to a map? Should there be 1-2 per each civilization or more to facilitate trading? Should they be concentrated in different areas or spread out evenly?

Thanks

 

[Shiggs713]

i like to give an abundance of resources, but it depends on what your going for. If your aiming for low end machines, then lower resources, and less food. If you have no limits, might as well add plenty, but never on every, or every other tile, it just looks bad graphically. Also I like to spread certain resources around frugally, maybe giving 1 or 2 nations a small abundance, while the rest of the world has little or none, so they will have to trade each other to acquire all the resources.