A Start I won't play

[timerover51]

Seems to me you could get any start you wanted by using the editor.

You are correct Turner, but given all of the changes that I have made to the game, even with an optimum start position, it takes are tremendous amount of work to win the game, given my style of play. The AI does a very nice job of making use of all of my changes as well. Those who think that a tailored start position makes it easy to win or guarantees a win should try it sometime.

 

[Regina]

I really stink at this game. For seriously. That's why every time I start on a new map I make a save then run all my units around for at least twenty turns to see what kind of bonuses and luxuries are in the area. If I like what I see I reload my save and start. If not I'm after a new game.

 

[GamezRule]

Lot's of players do that. Some Veterans were just talking about that. Personally, I like to play what I'm given. My Japan story is AW with barbs on.

 

[Steph]

I'm usually only play my mod, as now I find vanilla civ very boring with all the same units for every civ.

I start with a settler and a warrior, so I move the warrior first, if possible to some hill or mountain, to have a wider llok, before building the city.

Then, I don't care much about a "good" starting position, sometime it's fun to try to challenge a a bad start (but we ready to focus your effort on a new capitale as soon as possible).

However, I'd like to get some suitable location for my civ: if I play as Scandinavia, I will probably start again if in the middle of the map near desert and jungle, while I'll play if I'm north in the tundra.

On the opposite, playing with Arabia I wuld reroll a tundra start, and play a desert start.

Just for the fun of it .

 

[el_griffador]

I'm with you on that Steph, somehow it just feels "wrong" to have, say, Istanbul in a northern pine forest, or Berlin in floodplains and desert!

 

[madviking]

I play really good and really bad starts. But run-of-the-mill starts bore me.

 

[timerover51]

I'm with you on that Steph, somehow it just feels "wrong" to have, say, Istanbul in a northern pine forest, or Berlin in floodplains and desert!

I would agree with you there. On custom maps, I try to locate specific civilizations where the terrain matches their actual occurrance.

 

[Diviner]

I take almost all start locations that have fresh water under my feet. If something is not good I rather restart than move my settler. After all a bad spot's neighbour is also a bad spot usually. Terrains with 'Terra Incognita of Siberia' or 'Dead heart of Africa' feeling tend to make me restart immediately and unconditionally even if there is fresh water in the starting square

 

[darski]

I just quit a game as Romans after what seemed a promising beginning. My only source of Iron was right beside a volcano. Ain't no way Jose`.

 

[Opies]

I usually go for a cow+river on grassland, but any grassland start with a river is good

 

[Ansar]

Gotta have a river.

If I'm Agricultural, I also gotta have at least one mountain or hill.

 

[DWetzel]

I just quit a game as Romans after what seemed a promising beginning. My only source of Iron was right beside a volcano. Ain't no way Jose`.

Think of it as playing a really natural connect/disconnect strategy.

 

[Diviner]

Gotta have a river.

If I'm Agricultural, I also gotta have at least one mountain or hill.

Why specifically aricultural?

 

[Aramazd]

I'll play everything except marsh, I have no desire to waste tons of time clearing land just to build cities that start nearly useless.