[Bug / Gameplay .295] Invisible resources

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    When I started up a new game, I saw one special (fertile land) 2 squares away from me...  but the tooltip said I had Iron as well, right next to me, otherise invisible.  Moving my tooltip around I found a second fertile land as well, also invisible to the naked eye.  Starting cities and recovering goodie huts will be much easier once they become visible on the cloth map the way they used to be.

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I think this is the one of the bigger annoyances with .295.  It's especially annoying when you have to spend the first 6 - 10 moves of a game, before you can found a city, just to uncover the resources that surround the sovereign at the beginning of the game.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Question: You would allow a cheat of your start position "FOW" vs having to move around to determine your actual environment?

How big should the Start FOW (without a Town placed) view be vs the intial Sov builds site stats?

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

No "cheat" is necessary.  Something changed with the FOW in .295 that impacted the area visible at the start of the game.  Before Beta 1G this wasn't an issue.  There was a comment from one of the Devs that they did, indeed change how FOW is handledl; to accomodate multi-player.

 

As to how big the visible area should be around a sovreign at the start of the game... I think 2 hexes / squares would be perfect.  Right now there are things that are right next to the sovreign that don't show up until you move onto the hex.