[0.10.8] oil field abundance

[boro]

I've been trying for an hour to get a new map created cause everytime I got way too many oil fields. I'm used to getting 2-3 near my base and maybe 5-10 more within pipe distance (the distance beyond which you say: "no, I really should be using trains for this"). But all I got was this:

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This is with very low frequency and normal size.
Even with very low frequency/very small size I got like 5-7 fields in my medium starting area almost every time.

[kovarex]

Hm, maybe the settings doesn't work correctly, what if you go back to normal settings, or set the settings to high?

[boro]

I set it on on very high/very big and counted the number of oil fields in 10 restarts within viewing distance (press m and count): 7,9,12,21,13,9,11,7,21,5

[boro]

with default settings: 11,22,11,1,4,8,19,3,4,8

[arl85]

I think you can find useful analysis on the following threads

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 363#p20363
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 1&start=10

[kovarex]

Hello, are you sure you are not using any mods? The amounts I have are quite reasonable.

[boro]

I did some more testing and compared to 9.8 and it probably just comes down to variance (of which there is too much in map creation though). Not using mods.

[kovarex]

I moved this to not a bug.

I agree we might introduce some better balancing of the resource amount in the starting area of the player.