Lack of Coal

[Riker]

The city state has to have the tech and the proper improvements before they will gift it to you. I've had instances where a coal resource is sitting on a mined hill. The allied city state shows coal on their resource list, but I still didn't get the resource and I can't pay to improve the said tile because it's already mined.

Makes sense, I believed it was a bug

 

[kingofsealand]

Settle wider. The more land you grab the more tiles coal/any other resource could pop up. This is in and of itself a conundrum because if you settle like crazy and have over 10 cities and then research industrialization but end up with no coal then you have 10 cities which will never efficiently produce modern units. On the other hand if even two piles of coal show up among the 10 cities you have more than enough to power all of them.

 

[dexters]

coal is not hard to get, a city state will often have it.

The game breaker for me sometimes is lack of iron.

 

[kaspergm]

coal is not hard to get, a city state will often have it.

The game breaker for me sometimes is lack of iron.

That varies between games. If I'm not mistaken, each game there will be a shuffle between how strategic resources are distributed. It seems like at least one of them will be chosen to be CS-specific, i.e. being only or mostly available close to CS start areas in that particular game. Sometimes it will be Coal, sometimes Iron, sometimes Uranium. Horses and Oil tend to be more widespread due to diverse spawn terrains, at least that's my experience.

 

[Alexastor]

In a recent game of mine, coal is very rare. And uranium can only be found in one end of a single continent.

Or does this have to do with the Hemispheres map being bugged?

 

[GAGA Extrem]

It would be nice if we could get buildings that provides a small amount of artifical coal and oil (like the recycle plant). I guess allowing 2-4 of these strategic ressources wouldn't be gamebreaking and help to mitigate that "ffs no coal AGAIN" feeling.

 

[Cicerosaurus]

Aluminium is not a problem as you can build the recycling centre.

Coal is a feast or a famine for me. The part that irks me is- as mentioned above- a coal resource outside a CS border is shown as being part of their resources. If they don't have the technology they don't expand towards it and it seems to take forever.

 

[quantum42]

I've also noticed that coal and iron are scarce. I often play as Venice, and buy city-states that have these resources, or other useful ones.

 

[steveg700]

Can't you could send your workers into another city-state's borders and just improve it yourself? I could've sworn I've done that before.

 

[Pythakoreas]

Can't you could send your workers into another city-state's borders and just improve it yourself? I could've sworn I've done that before.

What pisses me off time to time, is when I see Coal spawning over a mine, but I can't work or pay or whatever to get it, because the CS doesn't have Industrialization yet.