Screenshot of the Day #54: Resource Depletion

[Buecephalus]

I've had it happen so often, that I'm genuinely angry when a resource dries up and ISN'T discovered in the same place.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Originally posted by Buecephalus
I've had it happen so often, that I'm genuinely angry when a resource dries up and ISN'T discovered in the same place.

me, too!

 

[Minmaster]

same here, i EXPECT to appear in the same spot

 

[Chuko]

The reason that resources disappear and the reappear is because there must be at least one of each resource type per player in the game. I think this feature was added in the 1.21 patch. This explains why we haven't seen it in the past.

Thats strange, I have an unpatched version (the game out of the box) and it happens at least once a game for me. I'm just happy I still have the resorces. It's just a game, it is not all about realism.

 

[hbdragon88]

It happens to me a lot, but I just didn't think that it was SOTD elgible. Otherwise I would have caught a screenshot of that and sent it in.

 

[soccerrules]

Thats happened to me SO mony times!

I am really surprised Yaniv hasn't had that happen to him and I have only had the game for a couple of months!

 

[Zur]

I think this is a cunning little programming trick done by some programmer in Firaxis to balance out the game so that resources are more or less spread between players.

Another cunning little trick I notice is the last spearman in an important AI city always seems to take out at least one of my attacking swordsmen/knights etc without taking ANY damage. Little things like this to balance out the game. Maybe it's just my imagination