Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:32 am
The odds are : when you prospect you have only a 25% chance of it actually prospecting and not having to do it next turn. Then when you successful complete th prospecting you only have like a 50% chance of success. so basically .25 x .5 = 12.5% chance of finding something when you prospect. I've prospected like 20 times before to get anything, but knowing something was there.
If you go to the mods page, there is a thread there with a link to the database used in the game (which if you want to kinda cheat) you can look at each area and what it is supposed o have. Granted I have seen them have more items, probebly by chance. (when prospecting for gems I knew was there, I got opium I didnt see in the spreadsheet as being there. So I think some of it is randome but some areas are logical IE oil abundan in the middle east ane texas and ohio area in the 1850's, for example I wasnt surprised to find oil in Kuait.
home that makes some sense.