I (almost) always have reagents

[xienwolf]

A thought just occured to me: What settings are all you people with no reagents using? (or is it a lot less common than it seems by the frequency of discussion?)

I typically have 2 or 3 reagents in my maps (and often one right at my start location).

I tend to use Fractal, Huge, Temperate Worlds with a Medium Sea Level. I also typically set it on Torroidal instead of Cylindrical, even though 50% of the time this sticks me in the tundra for my starting position.

 

[zxcvbnm]

On inland sea reagents seem to be rare

 

[onedreamer]

don't mind them, the human mind and the power of self convincement and selective memory and sight is not beatable by mere words.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I rarely have a problem with reagents, but incense is very rare on some map types (like Boreal, which might only have 2 or 3 desert tiles on which it could spawn)

 

[Grillick]

Incense can spawn on plains tiles, also. Is Boreal a strange map type that has deserts, but no plains?

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Boreal is a lot like the AoI senario. It is mostly forests with a only a little water (I think if has to be a flat world), and plenty of tundras and ice. I'm not sure I noticed any deserts at all the first time I played on it, and there were only a few 1 tile deserts the second time (I've only used this map type twice). I think there were plenty of plains, but I don't think incense spawns on forested plains (and ~90% of the map is forested, the rest is mostly ice)

 

[Sarisin]

I think if I had to choose which resource I find the scarcest on the map I play (Fantasy Realm logical) it would be Gems.

If I found ROK, it always seems like I don't have the Gems anywhere near. Yes, with luck you can get a Gems gift in one of your mines, but on the map itself, it seems to be very rare. Hard to get in a trade too.

Also, on this map it is always found on Jungle tiles which can be a small problem clearing in a slower speed game.

 

[Ekolite]

I tend to have more of a problem with incense then reagents usually. I play on Big_and_Small, Islands mixed in

 

[xienwolf]

Easiest Gem Source (single player at least): Dragon's Hoard.

 

[White Elk]

I use many types of maps. It just depends on the type of game I'm looking to play. Fractal may be the one I play the most, with Highlands being a close second. I can expect Reagents to be rare in Highlands but fairly common on Fractal maps. But even with Fractal I find Reagents to be rare. Sometimes there are a few sources on the map, but other times there have been absolutely none. And its definitely rare for me find them anywhere near my starting point when they do exist.

Recently I've been playing One City Challenges and so have chosen the Balanced map. I figured this map would give me the best odds for getting some of the critical resources after my culture hit legendary. In the last two games there were no Reagents anywhere on the map. But on my first OCC game with the Balanced map there were at least two of them (large map). So it does occur on the so called Balanced map.

Obviously different map types yield different terrain occurrences. And so Reagents will be rarer on some maps than others. But even on maps that have lots of grassland I find it to be fairly rare. This is why I'd like to see an alternate way to get the resource. And I don't think that ones map type choice should limit the types of units one plays with.

 

[White Elk]

I find Incense to be more common than Reagents. I also find Gems to be more common than either of them. Though I rarely find Gems reasonably close to my starting point. But since Archeron spawns in every game, I can be assured that I can at least obtain them. And I find Incense enough that I trust that each game I can find them as well. But not Reagents.

 

[Marksman77]

I've never had a game with no reagents, though I remember one with just one reagent resource.

There was Snarko's Options Mod where you were allowed to override the number of resources on the map (global amount or per player). It was aso easy to use, everything was done on a screen showing up before the map generation.
But I haven't seen version of this mod to work with BTS yet.

 

[Sureshot]

inland sea barely ever has reagents, and inland sea is one of the best map types heh

 

[Demus]

could depend on the climate you're playing on. as far as i know, reagents still use the old "spices" placement, so playing a climate which has a lot of possibilities for spices to be spawned in BTS should give you more reagents in FFH

 

[Sureshot]

the reason people notice it now is because something changed when cotton came in.

before cotton you would always find reagents on inland sea maps. but i suspect cotton took its place, because i can always find cotton, but reagents are very rare now.

 

[Ekolite]

For the RoK priests you shouldn't really have too much of a problem finding gems tbh, especially as the dwarves. Just build a few mines and soon you will have loads of them.

If you always have problems with resources you should try playing with the blessings of amathon option. It makes all resources a lot more common.