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[@Crusader Lord][@Wernher][@ActRaiserTheReturned][@TruckKun]

Side note, good posts so far and after talking to some people. I have been thinking about how people get resources for their civ. I am going to be more lenient with what resources show up. Like perhaps resources showing up, like after weather changes, exposing surface deposits. Like a small amount that you can get to work with and ease starting locations resources. Which would encourage people to look for more deposits. This is not to say, you can find trees in a desert or elephants in the UK. But, something more RP friendly and workable, and what do you all think of this? 

       
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100%, like I already said I think it's also realistic to expect some resources to simply have been depleted in time so of course we wouldn't have all the records, etc.

THAT BEING SAID... Do you mind if then I return to my original northern Italian claim? Moving to Sardinia was exactly because of 'ugh, I don't want to bother searching for everything so I'll just go with something that has a good cross section of historical resources' so if possible I'd go with my original idea.