Resources: Appearance rate of 0?

[Optimizer]

How common are resources with an appearance rate of 0?

Are such resources distributed differently than others?

[Ijuin]

I believe that an apperance rate of zero means that that resource does not appear on the map at all.

[Optimizer]

It does... in the original settings all luxury resources have an appearance rate of zero.

[alva]

when set at 0, arn't they distributed at random??

[Random Passerby]

Things I've noticed about luxury placement:

1. Luxuries are often found in groups, rather than individually.

2. Luxuries are divvied up on a continent-to-continent basis, based on civ numbers; for instance, if you have a huge map with 16 civs, and there's a continent that has 3 civs on it, that continent may have 0, 1, 2, or 3 luxury types. These luxury types will not appear on other continents.

3. The amount of each luxury is usually set to be a couple more than the number of civs present, IF POSSIBLE. For example, one time I was playing a large map, 12 civs, and I got stuck on some cruddy little island that was mostly plains and forests. This mini-continent was designated the gem continent, but it had no jungles and only one mountain. Hence, only one gem resource appeared in the entire game.



Presumably, setting a strategic resource at 0 would have the same effects.