Resources appearing

[olin40]

I'm brand new to the forum and this may be a dumb question, but here it is. If a resource appears in a cartain type of terrain, such as jungle, and you clear that terain before before you reach the age for the resource to appear, does that mean the resource will not appear in the spot where the terrain was?

 

[TimBentley]

The resource will still appear there.

 

[thetrooper]

Hey Tim, you forgot to:

Welcome to CFC olin40!

Don't worry about the resources, they will still appear. Clear those pesky jungle tiles.

 

[arthurv]

It has been said (and I agree) that resources are allocated to tiles before the game begins, this means that the original terrain type is taken into account.

But how about resource tiles that get exhausted? We know that they pop up on some other 'random' tile.
* Are these pop-up tiles also allocated at the beginnig of the game?
* or does the save file contain the original terrain type of each tile, to make sure that the resource pops up on the correct (original) terrain?
* Or does it pop up on a tile whose terrain type is appropriate for the resource at the moment the po-up? Which would mean that changing/clearing terrain does affect resource allocation...

 

[thetrooper]

I don't think that future pop-up tiles are allocated at 4000 BC. But for a resource to reappear on the map, certain tiles must be present.

If you clear all jungle tiles and coal get exhausted, they will reappear in mountains or hills.

 

[QuantumEleven]

But how about resource tiles that get exhausted? We know that they pop up on some other 'random' tile.
* Are these pop-up tiles also allocated at the beginnig of the game?
* or does the save file contain the original terrain type of each tile, to make sure that the resource pops up on the correct (original) terrain?
* Or does it pop up on a tile whose terrain type is appropriate for the resource at the moment the po-up? Which would mean that changing/clearing terrain does affect resource allocation...

The current terrain is what determines where "exhausted" resources move to. And, no, AFAIK the pop-up tiles really are random (subject to being the correct current terrain type).

 

[olin40]

Thanks for the info and the welcome.