"Special" terrain....is there a pattern???

[Daaraa]

I noticed while looking around about OCC tips that someone had this to say

"I will assume you know that there is a pattern that the "special" terrain features appear in. If you place a city in the middle of the pattern, you will have access to either three or four of the special squares. "

http://members.home.nl/paulvdb/occ.htm#strategy

This just amazed me. It made sense, no program is pure random. What is the pattern?

 

[Sodak]

Altho it gets broken up into different sizes as determined by the resource seed (set in the map editor), the pattern is a repeating set. I won't try ascii art, this description isn't confusing:

If your city sits in the center of 4 specials (the most possible, as this set of 4 is the base pattern), there will be one in each of the corners (northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast).

Some patterns have only 3 of the 4 repeated, or the set of 4 repeated 2 or 3 times, etc. Start a world in the map editor, change the resource seed, and observe the pattern. Note that grassland does not reveal specials - use any other terrain.

Also, note that huts always appear 2 tiles from a special square, in a consistent pattern that also changes with the resource seed.

 

[Magnus]

 

[el_kalkylus]

That is really great to know!