Seems to me.....

[Clubber]

... that whenever I mine a hill that has an Iron resource on it, the Iron gets depleted very quickly. Am I imagining this? For me, it's gotten to the point that I never mine these hills now, especially if I'm playing as the Romans or Persians and have only 1 Iron resource.

Maybe I'm paranoid.......................:crazyeyes

 

[ACM]

You are paranoid AND/OR imagining things. The developers of the game made it clear that resources get depleted randomly.

 

[Jimcat]

Agreed. It's just bad luck. I've had Iron resources last for 6000 years. I've also had Coal disappear after just a few decades. Gotta hate that... but no, there's nothing that makes Iron or any other resource more likely to disappear on you.

 

[rdomarat]

Yeah, you're paranoid, but I would be too if everyone was after me.

 

[Mr Spice]

Resources do not get exhausted when the tile has no road. If you first build a road and the mine shortly after, this could shed some light on your feelings of paranoia.

 

[Grashnak]

Originally posted by Mr Spice
Resources do not get exhausted when the tile has no road. If you first build a road and the mine shortly after, this could shed some light on your feelings of paranoia.

Actually, the depletion of resources is COMPLETELY random. Nothing, not even whether there is a road or not, has any impact on it. Dan has stated this many times. I've had iron disappear from my land even though it was never connected.

Its random!

 

[Mr Spice]

Ok, perhaps I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me.