Do you settle where you're spawned?

[madm]

It's a bit dependent on what kind of world you're playing, but I usually look around a little bit before I settle my capital. I often found that moving just 1 or 2 tiles from your spawn location you may get an additional luxury or resource. Of course you could get any tiles just outside of reach from your capital with a second city, but at the start of a game I usually want to keep all options open, also the option to go for few but large cities,for which you need an optimal capital location.
(I usually play pangaea/continents maps on emperor with standard settings)

 

[Cheeseisgood]

Unless I can see an obviously better location within the small amount of tiles that are revealed to me, I settle where I spawn. It's simply not worth losing out on that vital early production, even if it is only a few turns.

 

[ColinTH]

I voted three or more but I do play Marathon and the bad side effects are negligable.

 

[Becomedeath]

Very rarely will I settle beyond turn 1.

If my starting location is rubbish, I'll move my warrior in the most promising direction and if nothing comes from that then the settler moves in the next most promising direction.

If I don't see anything that I'd like to settle from that, then it's a reroll.

Bring back the "Regenerate Map" option!! Starting from scratch due to a sucky map is a pain.

 

[geram]

I usually move if I begin on the coast and settle at turn 1. I hate the water tiles in Civ V.

 

[headcase]

I'm the opposite; I might decide to go naval if it only takes one turn. Otherwise I always settle right away, or sometimes I re-roll if it looks really bad.

 

[Ellye]

I pretty much always settle on turn 0.

I remember only one game where my start position was so bad that I had to move around a little more.
I don't rerroll, bad starting positions are a nice added challenge.

 

[qalsip1977]

Very rarely will I settle beyond turn 1.

If my starting location is rubbish, I'll move my warrior in the most promising direction and if nothing comes from that then the settler moves in the next most promising direction.

If I don't see anything that I'd like to settle from that, then it's a reroll.

Bring back the "Regenerate Map" option!! Starting from scratch due to a sucky map is a pain.

I'm very similar. It goes like this:

Plan A: Settle where I start.
Plan B: If I see a better spot to settle in my field of vision, I move there and settle.
Plan C: If I don't see a good spot to settle but the terrain looks favorable, I may explore a bit with my settler and warrior, then reload the map to the beginning and go straight for any good spot I find.

If the above doesn't work and the map is just fail...reroll.

 

[wannabewarlord]

I have yet to get a map where the start is so unfavorable that I will not settle in turn 0. 90% of the time I even settle the exact spot where I spawn. I find the game assigns pretty decent starting spots.

 

[MAHak2]

My approach is somewhat gamey, i start be exploring with both settler and warrior.
Looking for a nice starting location and goody huts. When i found the "perfect" spot i reload autosave 4000 bc., and move my settler directly to the spot(plus i know where them goody hut/ruins are).

This approach also save you from the annoying scenario where your initial spawn point looks like the garden of Eden, but when you explor a few tiles away you find nothing but a barren arctic wasteland or desert.

 

[Steelyglint]

I may settle as late as turn 1.

I generally go have a look-see of the local area with my warrior before pressing settle. I'll move to start on a hill, get moar resources or get near the coast. Occasionally to settle on a desert tile.

 

[Martin Alvito]

It very much depends. Settling a luxury, a Hill or next to a 3 tile all can be worthwhile reasons for a move.

 

[Rpger29]

If I can't settle on turn 2, I generally consider it a crap start and I reroll. I got nothing but those yesterday. I actually played one of them 90 turns in on Marathon, only to be rolled over by Alexander, who had 5 cities to my 2, and 14 units to my 4.

/Petition for map regen.

 

[Becephalus]

I answer always, though it is not quite always. I would say out of 100 times maybe 1 or 2 times I will move somewhere I need to settle on turn 1, and maybe 3 or 4 times I will settles somewhere different then where I spawned but still on turn zero. But that is it.

The other 94-96 times I will settle right where I spawned.

I would never ever map reroll. How would you like it if the AI map rerolled you? It just seems against the spirit of the game.

 

[JaGarLo]

Yes, I settle my first city always where I'm spawned, because I'm not sure about which places are the best to put cities, so I just hope that the computer had been nice to me.

And no, I don't reroll. Where's the fun then?

 

[qemist]

I settle on turn 0 about 80% of the time, turn 1 maybe 15% and turn 2 (with teeth gritted) 5%. Resourceless sea starts, less than two forests or tundra close by are all motivators to leave.

I would never ever map reroll. How would you like it if the AI map rerolled you? It just seems against the spirit of the game.

I don't either.

 

[Kerosene31]

Almost always, yes. Once in a very great while I will see value in moving 1 space to get some extra resource, but with the ability to buy tiles now it isn't that big of a deal.

 

[ElWanderer]

I don't usually move far, but once went on a 5-6 turn trek to settle riverside with better resources. If the start position is all plains, riverless and lacking food resources, that's the cue to wander or regenerate.

 

[ColinTH]

I don't usually move far, but once went on a 5-6 turn trek to settle riverside with better resources. If the start position is all plains, riverless and lacking food resources, that's the cue to wander or regenerate.

I once sailed for 26 turns across oceans with my settler/Moai playing as Polynesia Marathon, archipelago, I found the perfect Island to build Maoi statues and because of ruins I started with two Policies and a heap of Gold. I took the Liberty Tree and sent the free settler back to where I started!

 

[Noatz]

I always move my warrior first to check for more strong tiles, and if where I begin is pure garbage I may wander for a couple of turns, but around 60% of the time I tend to SIP, or move one tile.