Need rare island fertility combinations + oil

[Rina Ravyn]

Ive been going though 30 to 50 seeds by now, and never has an island popped up with the following fertility combination, on top of my need for oil

Grain, Furs, Red Pepper & Potats/Hops/whatever

Is there a hidden mechanic that islands with oil can only have certain fertility combinations, or have i been just massively unlucky with the ones ive tried?

[POWER WITHIN USER]

You could simply look for a high oil output and building area availability (the things you can't change) then use a trade union to add whatever crops you're missing.

[Primigenia]

Some combinations are hardcoded out of the random pool. You can't find an island with grains, peppers, potatoes and hops as fertilities because it would cover every need for the first three pop tiers

[Rina Ravyn]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Primigenia:

Some combinations are hardcoded out of the random pool. You can't find an island with grains, peppers, potatoes and hops as fertilities because it would cover every need for the first three pop tiers

thats what i was thinking. because with grain, peppers, fur AND OIL you could cheekily cheese your way from farmers to investors without ever needing to discover the new world, with clever dockland trading for cotton and coffee.

Which is exactly what i was going to attempt

[Chaosium]

You can with the grand gallery, chef Michel + Franke get rid of peppers, furs and cotton fabric, so the fertilities can be disregarded

[Rina Ravyn]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Chaosium:

You can with the grand gallery, chef Michel + Franke get rid of peppers, furs and cotton fabric, so the fertilities can be disregarded

i have a savegame where i have it set up exactly like that, and its been running for 200 hours in the background, and i did not think of them FOR A SECOND before making this thread.

just schooled myself.

[Primigenia]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rina Ravyn:

thats what i was thinking. because with grain, peppers, fur AND OIL you could cheekily cheese your way from farmers to investors without ever needing to discover the new world, with clever dockland trading for cotton and coffee.

Which is exactly what i was going to attempt

I usually get an island with grain, potatoes, hops and furs, buy the pepper seeds item from kahina and the expert that allows me to produce furcoats with wool instead of cotton from Eli (it's called costume designer).
You won't be able to progress all the way through but having all the needs up to the engineers (except coffee, rum and bikes) produced in the old world really gets you a lot of room to set things up good

[BigRockWall]

Actor in the town hall covers canned food. Just need fur coats, and there are a few ways to do that without going to the new world.