civilization-5
I know that there are starting biases that affect where a particular civilization is placed
What I am asking is whether or not this affects the resources that surround him. I have noticed that everytime I start as the Byzantium empire, I always have HEAPS OF SALT :O.
Is this actually a bias, or is every game I played that I am the Byzantium Empire, or the AI/Friend/Enemy is the Byzantium empire is just so lucky to have an abbundence of salt.
I highly recommend the "Luxury Resource Display" mod. It's one of the higher-ranked mods at the moment, for good reason - it makes you permanently just a mouse-hover away from seeing a detailed list of how many luxury resources you currently have of each kind, including how many are traded.
Just search for it in the in-game mod hub, it's easily found, but it seems to also be downloadable from here (I recommend the in-game method, though).
With nukes, it makes absolutely zero difference.
Notice that in this instance, I've got 3 Uranium spare. I've just dropped a nuke on top of Genghis Khan's capital, taking off half its health.
In this second case, I have -1 Uranium left over and just dropped a nuke. It's left Karakorum with the same amount of health and the same number of citizens. It has also left the Mobile AA with 1HP in both cases, and my poor poor infantry with the same amount of HP.
Ergo, negative uranium makes no difference to nukes. I suspect it will impact on nuclear submarines, as they are a unit that hangs around (as opposed to a one-time usage unit).
Best Answer
In Civilization 5, staring resources are determined by the map seed. It is most likely that you've been playing with the same map settings... and seed over and over.. Or luck.
As for surrounding terrain placement/spawn location - That IS biased to each empire (but can be disabled in advanced settings).
I've created about 10 games, none but one contained salt.