20-08-2002 08:50									#1
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First off, I haven't posted in months, but browse sometimes, and I thought of something:

In a way to improve graphics, why not use resourses? I was just looking at Sn00py's new mod, and it occured something like deep sea trenchs could be depicted as resources. Or volcanoes. Or suburbs/villages. Or little lakes, big mountains, in other words this is how you get extra terrain features. BTW I don't mod/graphics, so I couldn't do this, but I'm just throwing the idea out to the community

	20-08-2002 09:00									#2
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This has been suggested before in a natural disaster thread in which resources where used to represent natural distasters. I use an oasis resource in my games. The problem with natural disaster resources with high appearance / disappearance probability is that it only dissapears after you have built a road to it and only effects you after you have started to work the tile. There was also discussion about AI trading. Would the AI accept Volcano? And can you really trade little lakes?

	21-08-2002 06:44									#3
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Maybe you could make them bonus resources to avoid trading, but this will stop them from dissapearing.

	22-08-2002 22:24									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Adc Maybe you could make them bonus resources to avoid trading, but this will stop them from dissapearing.

Yeah but are you seriously gonna trade "deep sea trenches" for your silk or iron ???

	22-08-2002 22:35									#5
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Actually, you do want them to be bonus resources. This way they could be decorative and permanent.

	24-08-2002 00:11									#6
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Yeah it should be bonus resources so you can't trade them.

	24-08-2002 00:12									#7
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wrong post

	25-08-2002 17:31									#8
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quote: Originally posted by WarpStorm Actually, you do want them to be bonus resources. This way they could be decorative and permanent.

The problem here is that you for some reason cannot control their appearance ratio and you cannot use them as required resourses for buildings/units etc...

This means that if you want to have a very rare natural resourse (volcano etc) they will appear around the map
in the same abudance than wheat and there is no way of controlling it.

If you want a resourse to be rare or VERY abudant, then you MUST make it strategic and thus TRADEABLE witch is a very sad thing. Expecially since this will mean that you may actually be able to trade that volcano or earthquake to a A.I for some 50 GPT


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	25-08-2002 18:10									#9
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wont this particularily slow down gameplay as the ai will have to evaluate tradeable resources every turn ??

	25-08-2002 20:32									#10
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One of the things i meant in the first post included putting resources in the ocean, which, if I recall, can not be harvested