Changing Starting Locations

Is it possible to change the starting location (East vs. West coast) of a Civilization, and if so what file do I edit?

I’d like to change it so that ½ starts on the East and ½ on the West side of the map. I know this is not historically accurate, but then again, I’m playing on a random map

I find it that if 4 or 5 European Civs all start on the East side they bunch up.
Thanks.

In the Civ4EuropeInfo.xml there is entry <bStart> for each Europe zone.
Right now it is 1 for east coast only. You can try to make it 1 for west as well.
This is not on per Civ basis - there is no way to do it per civ, that i know of - but with random start locations it should still give you a somewhat even distribution.

I'll give it a try,
Thanks.

*cough* If random starts actually worked correctly.

Will be interesting to see the result.

Dale said:

*cough* If random starts actually worked correctly.

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Haven't you fixed them ?

Yeah but not in the unofficial patch. It's working as coded, so it's not really a bug how it works in vanilla.

I'm playing AoDII and this change works great.

I love it!

I've made the trip to EU longer to make it a real journey.
Below is my CIV4EuropeInfo.xml file:

<Civ4EuropeInfo xmlns="x-schema:CIV4GameInfoSchema.xml">
<EuropeInfos>
<EuropeInfo>
<Type>EUROPE_EAST</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_EUROPE_EAST</Description>
<Direction>east</Direction>
<bStart>1</bStart>
<iTripLength>6</iTripLength>
<iMinLandDistance>4</iMinLandDistance>
<iWidth>5</iWidth>
</EuropeInfo>
<EuropeInfo>
<Type>EUROPE_WEST</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_EUROPE_WEST</Description>
<Direction>west</Direction>
<bStart>1</bStart>
<iTripLength>6</iTripLength>
<iMinLandDistance>4</iMinLandDistance>
<iWidth>5</iWidth>
</EuropeInfo>
<EuropeInfo>
<Type>EUROPE_NORTH</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_EUROPE_NORTH</Description>
<Direction>north</Direction>
<bStart>0</bStart>
<iTripLength>2</iTripLength>
<iMinLandDistance>2</iMinLandDistance>
<iWidth>0</iWidth>
</EuropeInfo>
<EuropeInfo>
<Type>EUROPE_SOUTH</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_EUROPE_SOUTH</Description>
<Direction>south</Direction>
<bStart>0</bStart>
<iTripLength>2</iTripLength>
<iMinLandDistance>2</iMinLandDistance>
<iWidth>0</iWidth>
</EuropeInfo>
</EuropeInfos>
</Civ4EuropeInfo>