Ressource availability ?

[rancorbeast]

Hey Guys ! First I wanna thank all who responded to my little rant about the combat system regarding my little ass whooping story of mine. I took all your suggestion into account and got out of trouble. I basically went back and loaded an earlier game and started to build an awesome and super big military force and now the egyptians are never going to attack me !! At least it looks that way.

So here's my new question. I pretty much controled all the critical ressources (Iron Coal etc.. )2 of each sometimes three except for Oil, I only had one of them and it's now exausted... Now The egyptians have a tiny lil city up north who has oil... But the bastards never want to trade... I offer Coal, Iron, Rubber you name it...oil is never available on there side !! I looked on every tile on the map and it's the only one there !! Will there ever be another one who's just gonna appear ?? Just to be sure I built some cities in the north regions just so I control these parts in case it shows up... I'm I hoping for nothing here ?

All suggestions and comments are once again very much appreciated !

Thanks a million !

 

[Tomoyo]

Resources never just vanish. They always reappear somewhere else on the map.

 

[warpstorm]

Hit crtl-shift-m and scan the map.

 

[The Omega]

If the computer has no extras of a resource, they will not trade it for anything. You'r best chance is capturing the city.

 

[warpstorm]

In addition, if they don't have the tech to exploit it themselves they can't trade it because they don't know it's there.

 

[Conqueror '91]

That gets tough when your desired resource is in some tiny city in some puny civilization. Sometimes it seems like your opponent is just being finicky to watch you get angry...

Best solution is to go in guns blazing and teach them who's boss!

 

[Willem]

Just to be sure I built some cities in the north regions just so I control these parts in case it shows up... I'm I hoping for nothing here ?

Just because there's one Oil in the north now, doesn't mean that another one will appear there as well. It's based on terrain only, not location. If one appears, it can pop up anywhere.

 

[Elrohir]

Resources never just vanish. They always reappear somewhere else on the map.

Really? I didn't know that, I've had Iron disappear on me once, and magically appear another time, but I wasn't sure if it was just a glitch or not....so it just goes to another part of the map?

 

[Willem]

Really? I didn't know that, I've had Iron disappear on me once, and magically appear another time, but I wasn't sure if it was just a glitch or not....so it just goes to another part of the map?

All resources are placed on the map at the beginning of the game, and if one disappears, it will reappear on the appropriate terrain somewhere else on the map. So the number of resources are fixed and always remain constant.

 

[Elrohir]

Interesting....thanks Willem, Tomoyo.

 

[DragonRunner]

In addition, if they don't have the tech to exploit it themselves they can't trade it because they don't know it's there.

Well, technically they do know it's there since the AI can see the whole map You yourself can trade away a resource you have 1 of. I have used this sometimes, especially when I am going to get another one hooked up in a few turns.
In addition, horses and rubber can't be exhausted, since they represent "organic" resources that are renewable.