Indeed, huge with medium sea level works well.
So, with regards to Game Settings, did we reach any conclusions? We seemed to agree on No Vassal States, but aside from that shall we leave the rest as defaults? (This is a fun game as opposed to a highly competitive one, so leaving things like Huts, Events and Barbarians in the game for flavour seems fine to me.)
Yeah, I originally joined CDG (his forum, for those who don't know) on the 6th of January 2002, so it'd be over 7 years now that I've known you. Quite a large proportion of my life, as I was only 14 at the time... wow, sounds like ages. (I guess it is, relatively speaking.
)Big_and_Small occasionally hands out isolated (or tundra) starts. It's not a huge chance, but it'll always be there unless someone checks the map. (Doesn't necessarily have to be someone playing in the game, although that makes it simpler.) Tundra starts are easy to spot from the outset, but isolated starts are sometimes not obvious until many turns into the game. Thus you could play 50 turns into a game only to find that you are on your own.
