TheGuineaPig
Chieftain
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2014
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A couple weeks ago I played a Zulu game where I decided to try out PedroElm's Honour/Commerce/Autocracy strategy. I had a really good map for it; production-heavy start with gems and silver, mountain, two stone, river. Ethiopia and USA close by with accessible capitals, and a bunch of other warmongers (Askia, Gustavus, Dido, Suleiman) to keep the rest of the world busy. I started strong, bllitzing Ethiopia and USA, taking on Brazil, before running into Caroleans and the Great Wall, which took me some 50 turns to get through. I eventually won though.
Anyways, today I start up a game, and get Zulus with gems and silver. On river. On a mountain... with two stone. Feeling a very strong sense of déja vu, I click retire and see what other civs are in the game. USA. Ethiopia. Sweden, Brazil, Songhai, Carthage, Ottomans. Even the relative positioning was the same; Ethiopia to my immediate NE, USA to my SE. Brazil north of Ethiopia, Sweden farther north still, etc.
Has anybody experienced this before? I get maps have some kind of seed or something but I figured the odds of playing the exact same one would be incredibly low.
Anyways, today I start up a game, and get Zulus with gems and silver. On river. On a mountain... with two stone. Feeling a very strong sense of déja vu, I click retire and see what other civs are in the game. USA. Ethiopia. Sweden, Brazil, Songhai, Carthage, Ottomans. Even the relative positioning was the same; Ethiopia to my immediate NE, USA to my SE. Brazil north of Ethiopia, Sweden farther north still, etc.
Has anybody experienced this before? I get maps have some kind of seed or something but I figured the odds of playing the exact same one would be incredibly low.