Yeh that i can gurantee , there is no iron area near on that seed… ever… i rebooted game so many times already and i never seen one… i even seen wolf dens and barbarian camps right above my spawn spot in some of the reboots but never iron… its always sand, clay, stone & coal…
I picked to play in pioneer for first game play thru’s to learn game basics and chill, but even on pioneer /easy mode game can be a tidy hard and annoying… and its mostly due to lack of iron near by, and how low tax earnings are at start/mid game… and how expensive some upkeeps seem to b like per example the doctor house 25 gold per month ? should b ok if i had a gold mine, but i havent seen one yet either…
At some stage i had 200+ish people in my town but was barely earning from taxes…barely enough to pay for temple and doctor house. and a few towers. for defence… hiring soldiers would cost even more too, and without iron near to b more self suficient, i have to b lucky enough and wait for the right traders and hope they get my stuffs…or i start exploring, hopeing i dont come across some barbarian camp and wipes my insignificant army…
Either way i know i still kinda sucks / am new to the game… but thats my whole point with this… if a player chooses to play on easy mode more resources should spawn near, expecialy iron…, it should b a chill play tru and not a head pain to find resources to progress… or constant wipe becauce a barbarian camp spawns near… and you can barely pay for 4 soldiers and a doctor when i got over 200 people in my town…
Dunno its just my opinion anyways, I personaly like a challenge some times, and i been enjoying the game alot so far and trying find solutions for the issues that i come across. But alot of times, im just getting annoyed 
heres another tiny example of other thing annoying me… im over producing shoes and cloths, i got two storages and shoe shops for it on both sides of town yet…
10% of my people seem to like to go naked and barefoot… how do i check whos missing shoes… 1 by one ? or am i missing something ?
same for…
i got 3 compost yards and 2 soap factoys also both in diferent sides of the town center…
guess 2% dont like to shower and thats fare i guess and quite realistic xD
i just would like some of this info a bit more detailed or targatable if you know what i mean… i got no clue, exactly what part or whos missing it unless i check citizens 1 by 1 ?
now that i think of it maybe counting the infants ? but they dont wear cloths ?
heres another… i went negative gold -2 per month… because i couldnt pay stuff everything that as monthly cost turned off automatically… why not make the game pause and make you selects stuff you wanna turn off so it wont disable everything… but yeh anyways winter went by and couple months passed… why was my gold llike this for 4 months.+…?
and places are still with no workers… after couple months tho now my balance is positive… im not even building anything so where is the gold going ?
Lol as i sold stuff in the market to have gold and as soon as i deposit it this happens…
Im a very lucky guy as you can see 
oh wait 2minutes after… barely had time to recover…
yeh time to reload game… bloody annoying xD
So again, and this just my opinion… in “EASY MODE” game being this hard or annoying is not fun and alot of people will simply rage quit. i wil start new game, for now cause still enjoying the challenge and the game but i wonder how long it will last, i know its pre release and that you guys got much work ahead and will keep improving this game.
So dont get me rong… i still belive this is a great a game with alot of potential, and that the reason im trying to explain how i feel about it… not sure if good enough because of bad english but im trying
Afterall i just want this to b the best city builder game out there
