Find the resource.

okblacke · January 12, 2004, 20:37

Playing on a small map with five AI, random settings, ended up as English (first time as the Brits).

I've got Rocketry...but no aluminum. Well, no problem. Before I had steam and no coal, cavalry and no gunpowder, and a few knights who made themselves comfortable on German land managed to fix the situation quite nicely. (It's a young planet, I think, full of glaciers and volcanos.)

But I can't find aluminum ANYWHERE on the map. I had this happen once many years ago, when Civ3 first came out: Is there anyway to cycle through (known) resources? I may have hit the resource bug talked about here. There's a bunch of volcanoes (volcanni) so...

No sign of the soda can means this world is going to become a bloody mess....

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mrmitchell · January 12, 2004, 20:39

No way to hold your Dr Pepper!?

Oh, well there's always plastic bottles. Don't worry

kring · January 12, 2004, 20:49

Have you tried Control Shift N or Control Shift M?

I have seen reports of some people not having one or more resources anywhere on the map in Conquests.

MrWhereItsAt · January 13, 2004, 05:33

kring is right - so far I haven't seen any randomly generated maps with the official resource occurrence values that have no instances of any particular resource. The only way to be sure is to systematically check every land tile on the planet with all roads, cities, units etc turned off using Ctrl-Shift-N.

okblacke · January 13, 2004, 07:10

OK, here's the game. This is only the second time I've had this happen, and it's possible I'm just missing it, but I don't see it.

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okblacke · January 13, 2004, 07:11

Quote:

Originally posted by mrmitchell
No way to hold your Dr Pepper!?

Oh, well there's always plastic bottles. Don't worry

Dr Pepper must be drunk from GLASS containers!

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KenderBane · January 13, 2004, 07:17

Dr Pepper must be drunk from glass containers that have been properly chilled.

SirOsis · January 13, 2004, 13:15

In the save you posted you do not have Rocketry so that might be the problem

SirOsis · January 13, 2004, 13:23

I just researched Rocketry and there is Aluminum near Hannover. Might be other places too but I didn't really look. Got a SGL from it too.

Inverse Icarus · January 13, 2004, 14:30

steven8r · January 13, 2004, 14:45

Quote:

Originally posted by SirOsis
In the save you posted you do not have Rocketry so that might be the problem

* steven8r speaks for okblacke DOH!!!

Steven

asleepathewheel · January 13, 2004, 15:02

RobC · January 13, 2004, 15:18

Quote:

Originally posted by SirOsis
I just researched Rocketry and there is Aluminum near Hannover. Might be other places too but I didn't really look. Got a SGL from it too.

LOL...SirOsis, I have a few savegames I could use an SGL in, too -- can you play a few turns for me?

MrWhereItsAt · January 14, 2004, 02:08

Interesting.... wonder why ok thought he had Rocketry... ?

okblacke · January 14, 2004, 03:19

Quote:

Originally posted by SirOsis
In the save you posted you do not have Rocketry so that might be the problem

Sonufa(*&@^*&!@^#(!!!!

What happened was that I was playing on two different machines and I had researched Rocketry, set the game aside, then loaded it up on a different machine. But apparently loaded up an earlier save.

So, yeah, DOH!!!

vmxa1 · January 14, 2004, 03:40

Well at least you know you will not being missing the resource.

MrWhereItsAt · January 14, 2004, 05:46

The elaborate ploy to not cheat to look for resources but instead get vmxa to cheat for you has been successfully completed.

Well done.

vmxa1 · January 14, 2004, 13:51

Wait a minute, I did not load the game. It was SirOsis.

okblacke · January 15, 2004, 08:32

Quote:

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
The elaborate ploy to not cheat to look for resources but instead get vmxa to cheat for you has been successfully completed.

Well done.

Actually, it didn't matter. Shortly after I posted this, the Russians attacked and I ganged everyone up on them. Diplomatic victory.

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