Assigning Starting Points

[Starship]

Quick question. When you have a map, how do you assign starting spots for players. I have settlers there currently. Will the game recognize these settlers for starting points, no matter the civs selected? Is there an alternate way of assigning starting points? Thanks.

 

[Gerikes]

Quick question. When you have a map, how do you assign starting spots for players. I have settlers there currently. Will the game recognize these settlers for starting points, no matter the civs selected? Is there an alternate way of assigning starting points? Thanks.

Just putting the units there won't be enough. Not sure if there's a better way, but here's how I do it....

For scenarios, check out this tutorial. It's really the end-all for what the scenario files looks like: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=135669

(In case you didn't know, right-click the scenario file and do "Open With:" and pick notepad or another text editor)

To answer your question, if you want a specific player to have a specific starting point, you would do

StartingX=15, StartingY=3


inside the BeginPlayer and EndPlayer of that player (obviously, with the starting coordinates).

To make a starting plot that any player can start at, find the plot in the list of plots in the scenario file, and add into it's section:

StartingPlot

 

[Starship]

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

 

[strategyonly]

Thats exactly what i did, if you want i can send you copy of a new map i am working on and tell me what you think. Its a HUGE map.