On my first 1.2 game, I didn't find crystal or metal for the whole game. I tried to trade for it, but non of the other factions had metal or crystal either. and there seemed to be an over-abundance of shards.
Now, I understand something like this could happen on a randomly generated map, so I didn't give it much thought. But now on my second game, I'm experiencing the same thing. Plenty of shards, but no metal, crystals, no grains felds, no bees, etc.
Is anyone else encountering this, or did lightning strike twice on my games?
I'm playing on normal difficulty with all of the resouce settings on "average"