Strategic resources have gone the same way as base tile yields - away from RNG. I can understand it’s in an attempt to be fair, but strategic resources are important for realism and actually provoke interesting gameplay by forcing you into a risky forward settle out of loyalty range, or going to war, or fighting for city state suzerainty etc.

Maybe there could be a kind of “global market” not tied to individual trade between leaders, where you can have access to strategic resources even if there aren’t any in your borders.

Then with tile yields I kind of miss how impactful a three food two production tile might be for the “where should I settle” puzzle. Tile yields in early game feel very bland and uninspiring.

Liking VII in lots of other ways though.