[R&F] Civ placement

I downloaded the expansion yesterday and started up a game with Poundmaker but I only had about 15 minutes before I had to leave for dinner.

I'm curious to hear what people's experience is with the new Civ placement. Are they still spawning too close together? I'm not talking about the bug where they spawned literally right next to each other but that they spawn so close that early expansion is impossible or almost certainly leads to war. That was one of the reasons I stopped playing and waited for the expansion..

 

In my two games so far, both standard pangea with 8 civs, everyone has been very evenly spread.