A really good starting location

[JonahRowley]

Really, how could it get any better? Should I even try?

 

[JonahRowley]

Oh god no.. Worst. Start. Ever.

 

[Tomoyo]

First build should have been a curragh.

 

[JonahRowley]

Why? It can't do anything but explore? I've explored a lot now, but it's not looking good. However, I just finished writing, and I got a scientific leader! Maybe things won't be that bad if I can get off this damn island.

 

[SJ Frank]

And the settler should have move 2 spaces to the barb hut and found there. This way, there is no chance of poping barbs, not to mention a possible 4-turn settler factory

One advice regarding the SGL -- don't rush the Pyramid in Carthage

 

[Tomoyo]

Why? It can't do anything but explore? I've explored a lot now, but it's not looking good. However, I just finished writing, and I got a scientific leader! Maybe things won't be that bad if I can get off this damn island.

So that you would have built a warrior one turn after the barb popped.

15 shields is eight turns. It turns out to be seven because of a completing mine. At three spt, a warrior is 4 turns. That means you get a warrior on turn 11. The hut pops on turn 10.

 

[JonahRowley]

It's 30AD, three countries are attacking me, but I just got another great leader, a military great leader this time. I have map making, and a settler and spearman (or whatever my UU is called ) on a galley looking for unoccupied land. I might survive..

 

[Abaddon]

awww y is everyone more lucky than me in getting leaders

 

[JonahRowley]

awww y is everyone more lucky than me in getting leaders

I've literally only seen one sci. and one mil. until this game. Maybe they're giving me more because they feel sorry for me? And it's not like I can really use a military leader at all..

And are you actually accusing me of being lucky?! WTH are you on?

Long story short, I'm abandoning this game

 

[JonahRowley]

OK, sorry for posting so many screenshots, but my luck went completely the other direction this time. I started a new game, and look at my starting location now! That's 4 bonus foods and 2 other bonuses at first, then at least 7 food bonuses once I expand. Wow.. just.. wow..

 

[Abaddon]

i want both your game files. please post some up plz


also, dont worry about the picks.. i love it when people go to the trouble of illustration!

 

[JonahRowley]

At this rate, I'll exceed my upload quota. Here you go! Sorry, no save of the impossible game at 4000BC, only when I got my Scientific leader.

Maybe the reason I'm getting such strange deals is that these are huge 80% water archipelagos at 3 billion years, cold and arid. I wonder how difficult games like this will be?

 

[Abaddon]

kewl cheers.. what difficulty setting are these BTW?

 

[JonahRowley]

Emperor (and here's some junk to make the message 10 charaters long)

 

[ainwood]

I plugged those settings into the map generator, and I got a good start, but not quite THAT many wheat....

I suspect (and supported by previous trials) that the resource seed is different to the map seed, although a lot of the other resources are in the same place.

 

[citizen001]

Do you have the 4000bc ones? that would be great.

 

[Colle]

the first screenshot posted shows a VERY bad starting location for me. Your capitol city will be among the worst productive city in the world.

See my poll for a thread about coastal cities !
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=117163

 

[Dreadnought]

Be careful! If you have alot of bonuses, the rest of the terrain will be bad. I started and got THREE cows, but the rest of my island (outside my capital's cultural boundaries x10) was desert

 

[tR1cKy]

Amazing start! You have by far beaten mine

 

[Colle]

may be theres huge land of jungle around the 6 wheats (north).