The COAL POLL 2: How many cities (out of 10) should have access to full coal?

[Stalker0]

We are trying to gauge how plentiful coal should be as a strategic resource.

In this scenario, imagine you have a 10 city empire. You do not have any extra coal from special things like statecraft, Autocracy's third alternative, or any refineries. This is just the BASE amount of coal you have access to on the map.

We define "full coal" as a city that has 2 coal to build both a factory and either a train station or sea port.


The question: How many of your 10 cities do you think in a typical game should have full access to coal (defined as 2 coal per city)?

 

[Civrinn]

The coal debate is tough. I see the argument for making coal a bit more rare. I am also not sure the impact of making coal abundant. My only issue is that if you make coal rare it seems to hurt the non warmonger civs more, because the warmongers will just take someone else's. It can feel like it is not very catch up mechanic friendly.

You could argue that making coal abundant would nerf Autocracy a bit, but Autocracy can be a safer bet from the player perspective. So maybe that isn't the end of the world.

 

[abulafia77]

In my recent games, coal was plentiful but oil was very rare / concentrated ...

 

[bryanw1995]

I voted with almost half of the respondents LOL. GMTA