Bad aluminum distribution

[Sam]

Rise and Fall expansion playing on a standard size map. When aluminum was revealed there were only three available on the entire map... and two were next to each other. Sort of makes it difficult to win a space race. Who would have thought aluminum was such a rare resource.

[Kurnn]

They have made powerful and important resources less easy to get hold of. You can still trade for them, get them from citystates or "other new ways".

You can also go to war for them....which is just like real.

They added more types of resources to get them spread out, because it was plain stupid that each civ had access to 6 oils. Now resources are valueble....which is cool!

[Sam]

Except there was lots of iron and oil on the map. Only aluminum was scarce. The others were plentiful.

[Galactic Origins]

mine had aluminum all over
you just were unlucky is all

[Despiser]

Foiled again

[Kotli]

You failed to make the right offerings to RNGesus so you got cursed with a poor map.

[Kalvix]

Publicado originalmente por Kotli:

You failed to make the right offerings to RNGesus so you got cursed with a poor map.

Is RNGesus your term for bad game design?

A strategy game has no place for for vital resouces being luck based, they need to be distributed around enough that unless you purposefully didn't expand a lot you'll likely have a bit, otherwise you can end up playing a game for ages only to find you don't have any of the resources to build late game units meaning if somebody has decided they don't like you who does have those higher tier units.. well you're out of luck unless 1 of the AI decided to not hate you for no reason and they have the resource you need and plenty of it to trade.

I dunno... I just hate RnG, I don't want to have to restart a game several times waiting for the RnG to give me a seed that'll work. It always ruins multiplayer as well, last game I played with a friend he had nothing but barbarians all around him so had no choice but to build non-stop units (forcing a domination path he didn't want to play) and in a previous one I ended up near tons of the AI while he had a huge amount of space to expand with no competition, again forcing me into domination or just accepting having very little room.

[Paulytnz]

Always, always, always play with the "balanced start" option in the advanced options. It's not under resources it's under something else (starting position or something) but it will give you horses, iron etc closeby every time. I should think the later game resources would factor in too.