Rarest tile-resource combo?

[vormuir]

I'm pretty sure it's Beavers on a plain... I think I've seen that exactly once.


Waldo

 

[Kietharr]

Incense on a non desert tile, it can happen but it's extremely uncommon.

 

[r_rolo1]

Plains deer.... never saw it in my games

 

[Squarg]

I actually have an game where I got 5 gold on flood plains, but that was a fantasy map.

 

[Orion071]

I'm pretty sure it's Beavers on a plain... I think I've seen that exactly once.


Waldo

Incense on a non desert tile, it can happen but it's extremely uncommon.

Plains deer.... never saw it in my games

The only time I see any of these is when my capital starts way up in the icy regions and the map generator turns all of the Tundra and Ice tiles in the BFC to Plains. I'm pretty sure that's the only time these will happen.

OK, the Incense is when the capital starts in the desert, but it's the same concept. The map generator will improve your BFC and remove the "useless" desert, tundra and ice tiles.

 

[Ad Hoc]

i've seen all of these, but i must admit that i've only seen incense not on a desert tile once.

i hadn't picked up the connection with the BFC of capitals but it could be right.

 

[MrCynical]

Plains/Incense and Plains/Silver are the really unusual ones I find. Plains/Deer I see quite often, as the map generator often beautifies polar starts with food resources. Plains/fur I also see quite often - frequently in large clumps.

 

[Elandal]

It's fairly easy to check the terrains various resources can appear in from Assets\XML\Terrain\CIV4BonusInfos.xml (Warlords and BTS both use the vanilla file). Where some bonus appears on terrain it normally can't appear on, it's always due to starting location normalization which turns desert / tundra / snow into plains, removes jungles, and may more.

Eg. non-jungle grassland ivory is not possible outside capitol normalization, as ivory can appear on plains and jungled grassland, but not on non-jungle grassland. That people mainly consider deer / fur / silver / incense is because those do not appear on "good" terrain, only on "bad" terrain (desert / tundra / snow).

 

[vormuir]

You know what? This thread was inspired because I saw the beavers-plain combo just outside of Washington... which was down near the south pole.

As you say, the map generator must have upgraded from tundra. Cool.


Waldo

 

[Peluin]

Every couple dozen maps on Great Plains, I've seen flood plains corn tiles. That's a lotta food!

 

[vicawoo]

I've had plains deer and plains hill silver before. Don't remember beavers, but then again, I usually don't try to settle near them.

I've never seen grassland deer, as some people have mentioned.

 

[gallego]

I'm pretty sure it's Beavers on a plain... I think I've seen that exactly once.


Waldo

I actually just had a starting position with about five of those...

 

[Silver Marmot]

Funny... I just started a game and had two plains fur and a plains deer right by my city.

 

[Belial]

Metal on an island in your bfc of your capital.

 

[xanadux]

Ocean Cows.

 

[Mowque]

Ocean Cows.

thats a bug,

 

[Cookie Crumbs]

I've started seeing plains incense quite a lot lately in BtS...

 

[Zhalvir]

I'm pretty sure it's Beavers on a plain... I think I've seen that exactly once.


Waldo

For some reason, I had a flash of Samuel L. Jackson yelling...

 

[Elandal]

Some maps have different resource placement. Fantasy map is obvious one: you can have any feature and resource on any terrain type - including grassland floodplain corn. Great Plains has separate resource placement as well - eg. grassland deer which can't occur normally.

 

[vicawoo]

Ocean Cows.

Civ manatees are only found at jungle latitudes, where there is minimal coastline compared to tundra regions. They're rarer than whales.