Aeram wrote:

Well, it's all about balance I suppose. But starvation can make for an interesting game, no ? I mean, what makes humans go to war (or to trade) is the need for ressources. I geniunly think that lack of some ressources can be a good thing. What make the history of France and Japan, for example, is their complex relashionship with natural ressources. Same for the US, that has everything and think it's the sepecial golden boy because of it, for some reason. (Although they are no longer self sufficient for oil, it's been a while in fact, but I digress.)

Balance then. Make sure you have a modicum, yet can find yourself in a situation when you need to do something to get to the Eldorado... or have to preserve your Eldorado from less... merchant minded individuals.

Edit : same about the repartition of ressources around the map : seem natural to me that their would be some "hot spots" for some ressources, but again, their need to be some balance about it. Oil has some hotspots around the world, for example, America, Russia, Middle East. But you can find some in Europe too, northern sea.

Their was an idea about using the way the ressources in Endless Space 2 were, meaning, you can have large deposits, and mediocre ones. Stockpiles, and shortages. And so on.

Yep agree: diversity is good  to forment conflict but having a base amount of resources is a good idea

Guess the question is how much that base should be :)

BTW: The US has been ramping up production thanks to fracking so we might see a day again where they are not relyint on import again:

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/us-oil/

Aeram wrote:

Balance then. Make sure you have a modicum, yet can find yourself in a situation when you need to do something to get to the Eldorado... or have to preserve your Eldorado from less... merchant minded individuals.

Edit : same about the repartition of ressources around the map : seem natural to me that their would be some "hot spots" for some ressources, but again, their need to be some balance about it. Oil has some hotspots around the world, for example, America, Russia, Middle East. But you can find some in Europe too, northern sea.

Their was an idea about using the way the ressources in Endless Space 2 were, meaning, you can have large deposits, and mediocre ones. Stockpiles, and shortages. And so on.

I really like the idea of small/med/large desposits. That will prevent this visual spam. And also they have almost no tiles to build on since you can't build where there are resources. They won't be able to get alot of synergies from districts. Maybe there should be a limit of maximum 3 resources per province.