Most 'boring' start ever (challenge save included)

Chieftess · Feb 16, 2004

You've seen threads like, "The Best Start Ever!", well, here's the most boring start ever! All grassland, and a scattering of forest. Atleast there's a few bonus tiles, and food... but it's an island! On a huge map! This is the far east side of the map, and one minimap height above the bottom.

EDIT: This is on my "Ancient Era Only" scenario, and it's a 60% pangaea! I was hoping to build the pyramids...

silver 2039 · Feb 16, 2004

Must be resoursless also. Have fun warring with Archer's, Longbow's, Guriella's and Tow Infantary and you don't have any luxries.

SuperBeaverInc. · Feb 16, 2004

Looks like fun

Chieftess · Feb 16, 2004

Oh, I forgot to mention...

Highest agression AI.

silver 2039 · Feb 16, 2004

Anyone want to take beat's on how long this will last? I say Middle Ages at most.

Chieftess · Feb 16, 2004

I could probably fit a good 15 towns on that island using ICS, with maybe 3 high production cities, and 12 coastal, gold raking cities.

silver 2039 · Feb 16, 2004

15 no way! How can you fit 15 cities on that tiny island?

Edit: BTW what level is this?

Chieftess · Feb 16, 2004

Originally posted by silver 2039
15 no way! How can you fit 15 cities on that tiny island?

Edit: BTW what level is this?

Like this:

Greyhawk1 · Feb 16, 2004

Ancient Era only? That sounds good to me...can I get it anywhere or am I just being dumb and its dead easy to do with the editor?

That would be fun just to see how far you can get. Maybe you can find an island with a suicide galley and expand a bit.

silver 2039 · Feb 16, 2004

It's preatty easy to do in the editor

Chieftess · Feb 16, 2004

yeah, just make all techs except ancient era techs set to "ERA NONE".

Greyhawk1 · Feb 16, 2004

Ah its gratifying to know that yes, I am dumb and yes, it is easy to do in the editor.

Chieftess · Feb 16, 2004

One more thing. I only turned 1 victory on -- conquest.

Chieftess · Feb 16, 2004

For those of you who want the challenge, here's the "Most Boring Start" save.

Version: Civ3 Conquests 1.15
17117263 (world seed)
Huge
Wet
Warm
5 Billion
60% Pangaea
Roaming Barbs
15 random civs
Iroquois
Most Agressive
Demigod
Conquest Only, Preserve Random Seed, Allow culture flipping

SuperBeaverInc. · Feb 16, 2004

As "fun" as that would be, I think that it would be unbelievably difficult to try at beat that.

wilbill · Feb 17, 2004

A seafaring civ might have been some help.
I think an Ancient-ony game would be fun. I've come to really enjoy ancient era warfare.

KaNick · Feb 17, 2004

The only saving grace of that map is that it is ancient only so the AIs won't get a huge tech lead on you. I see that someone downloaded this save. Care to post your results when you are done

. It would be an interesting read.

Edit: Wait is the island surrounded by ocean, yeah that is worse than the all desert start.

Goober · Feb 17, 2004

Ohh, wouldn't that be quite the challenge. At least the start is decent, but have fun battling with TOW infantries, and I hope you manage to find some other islands with resources, especially IRON!!! Ya, please keep us updated. Nice land though, Grassland is good.

KaNick · Feb 17, 2004

Remember this is an ancient onle modded game so there are no ship capable of navigating ocean tiles with no risk of sinking. Also conquest is the only victory condition enabled. These two things put together make this game nearly impossible since most troops will be lost before they reach foriegn soil.

Cuivienen · Feb 17, 2004

Normally I wouldn't Retire to see the whole map, but this is too funny. At least the Zulu are also stuck on an island nearby -- maybe you could wipe them out and then CONQUER THE WORLD!

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