Scarcity-GS

In Civ 5 the resources are always different so sometimes gold can be scarce while in other games production can be scarce. What is sure is that you won't get a perfect world. This means that depending on what type of victory you want, you will need to focus on one resource. If you want to win by science you will focus on the science/production, so that you can get advances in science fast and production for sciences buildings. If you want to win by culture you will need to focus on culture/production, so that you won't get overtaken by someone's culture and production to build buildings that give more culture/tourism. Finally, if you want to win democratically or militarily you will need to focus on gold and production so that you can by unit and city states and builds that help your military power or your politics. As you can see production is the most important to me, but this is for another blog entry.

The result of scarcity can be devastating in Civ, if you don't get good resources you will have trouble winning in  any way. So planning your strategy to get good resources is essential. I am just at the start of my game so right now so I have not experienced scarcity so I can't really talk about it. My situation right now is pretty good I am not lacking any resources and have a pretty balanced game so far.

In real life a scarce resource is oil. Oil is everything in the real world, it makes the world what it is. However, since it’s not an infinite resource and that everyone want it it is less and less common these days. It can be compared to luxury resources in Civ. In Civ happiness is the biggest factor in Civ changing everything from your money income to how fast you're civ grows.