Rubber question

[Borg]

Rubber can be found in Jungle, Tundra and Forest.

If you chop down a forest and turn the tile in let's say a Grassland, do you also eliminate the chance of rubber showing up there later on ?

Alternatively, if you turn a tile into a forest (with Engineering) does that mean there's a chance there will be rubber showing up there ?

Or are the Rubber locations fixed from the start of the game ?

Can anybody help me on that ?

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

All resources are in a set location in the begining of the game. Regardless of what you do to the territory (chop it down, bomb it, irrigate, mine, plant trees, or nuke it). However if you cut down a forest it eliminates the chance of a forest bearing resource appearing there. Doesn't apply to rubber as it never disappears, but it does for other resources.

 

[rychan]

so you're saying if you chop it down, the "we've discovered a new source of .... " will not happen in your grasslands that used to be a jungle. However, if that Jungle was specified to have a rubber at the beginning of the game, chopping the forest down before the rubber is revealed is just fine.

 

[Cuivienen]

Exactly

 

[Cedrick]

It kinda makes it chancy to do much landscaping before all resources are discovered, especially if you have access to few jungles/marshes.

 

[truckingpete]

So..what happenes if you planted a forest in a different spot, would rubber come in that spot? Rubber wont be there becuase it was "programmed" or put into that spot even if the forest was cut down? Is that right? I know you can edit resources in the editor....

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Yes, that's the way it works.
Imagine a resource that only appears in Forrests with a later tech, and has a high depletion rate. It gets distributed by setting up the map. Now you chop all Forrests in the world, and still the resource will show up where originally Forrests have been. But if a source depletes, it cannot show up again.
Now, if you plant a single Forrest somewhere, this is the only possible spot where a new source can be discovered.

 

[Pfeffersack]

In a standard epic game this aplies only for coal in jungles and uranium in forests, but it is good to keep in mind, especially it comes to global warming, which targets first vegetation.