Labrat19
Chieftain
I bought this game about a week and a half ago. Finished one game on vanilla on pilgrim and have downloaded the AoD2 mod/patch and am experimenting around with lots of different strategies. I am having lots of fun overall, and have enjoyed reading comments on this forum.
However, one topic I didn't see was about the "logic" of initial colony placement by the AI. More often than not, the European countries will plop down their initial colony as close as possible to another European colony (including sometimes me!!). I have seen ridiculous situations where there's a nice empty landmass and 4 european countries have their settlements bunched together in one place. It isn't even always where the best resources are. I usually play on standard maps but I've seen this on small and large too.
Even when they start out initially on the map equidistant from each other, there seems to be cases where they will travel quite a way up or down the coast (bypassing some pretty good spots) just to find another European settlement to be next to. It doesn't happen all the time but far too often.
Anyone else notice this? Why does this happen? I don't like to cheat/peak at the world builder but I don't like playing a game for a while only to find the other countries all bunched together in one place. So I look and then keep restarting until I get a more even spacing.
Is there some way to mod this, like making the AI choose to start their initial colony some minimum spacing away from another european civ?
I've seen the other few things that bug me adressed by others on this forum so I won't get into those. Still, overall, I do like the game (especially the AoD2 mod).
However, one topic I didn't see was about the "logic" of initial colony placement by the AI. More often than not, the European countries will plop down their initial colony as close as possible to another European colony (including sometimes me!!). I have seen ridiculous situations where there's a nice empty landmass and 4 european countries have their settlements bunched together in one place. It isn't even always where the best resources are. I usually play on standard maps but I've seen this on small and large too.
Even when they start out initially on the map equidistant from each other, there seems to be cases where they will travel quite a way up or down the coast (bypassing some pretty good spots) just to find another European settlement to be next to. It doesn't happen all the time but far too often.
Anyone else notice this? Why does this happen? I don't like to cheat/peak at the world builder but I don't like playing a game for a while only to find the other countries all bunched together in one place. So I look and then keep restarting until I get a more even spacing.
Is there some way to mod this, like making the AI choose to start their initial colony some minimum spacing away from another european civ?
I've seen the other few things that bug me adressed by others on this forum so I won't get into those. Still, overall, I do like the game (especially the AoD2 mod).
