Every game begins in the same spot on Earth.

[Caesarion]

Just finished my first game playing Rome. Small size map. When I stared my 2nd game as Rome, it started me in the same spot (North America). Restarted the game...same spot in N.A. Third time the same, etc.

Is this supposed to happen? Is there a way to make the starting location random?

TIA,
C

 

[JohnRM]

Yeah, I played a game with Rome in North America. Another bug?

 

[Valdyr]

Try turning off start bias in the advanced setup menu. The game may be trying to put you in a good starting spot for Rome, and only selecting a single spot on the entire map due to a bug.

 

[MadMaligor]

I am beginning to think this is a bug as well. I had the same problem. There is a solution/workaround but its not a good one. If you change the number of opponents, your starting point will change, but will stay the same for that number of opponenets. Same goes for city states.

Hope that helps.

PS...Earth map without a choice to start at the natural location for each civ....WTH???

 

[NolanNZ]

I am beginning to think this is a bug as well. I had the same problem. There is a solution/workaround but its not a good one. If you change the number of opponents, your starting point will change, but will stay the same for that number of opponenets. Same goes for city states.

Hope that helps.

PS...Earth map without a choice to start at the natural location for each civ....WTH???

There is a mod out that has initial starting locations I think.

 

[Onionsoilder]

I played several Earth maps, and I started in various areas(South America, North Africa and East Europe). I didn't finish two of those, but in the one I did Rome was in North America as well. I think it may have something to do with the start bias matching North America perfectly or something.

 

[Lord Tirian]

I played several Earth maps, and I started in various areas(South America, North Africa and East Europe). I didn't finish two of those, but in the one I did Rome was in North America as well. I think it may have something to do with the start bias matching North America perfectly or something.

I think there are a couple of other things going on as well - the Earth maps are unfinished/rushed.

If you open them with the map editor, you'll notice that the Americas aren't marked as such - they're Europe, too. AFAIK, that changes terrain graphics - but might also influence starting location picks a bit.

There are some other issues with the Earth maps as well - they only made the huge one and downscaled it without going over it by hand again. Downscaling removes certain hexes, which leads to two really, really bad things: messed up shapes for small islands (England and Gibraltar are totally messed up) and the deletion of all landmarks but Mt. Fuji on the Large (and probably smaller) maps.

Since you actually get an achievement for playing on the official Earth map, using an alternate hand-fixed map is... a bit unfulfilling (but not quite a bug... so unlikely to see it fixed).

This said, I had a game where I started in India, using Rome. Though my very first game (England) placed me in North America, too.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Hernite]

Don't worry, some great maps are just around the corner if this goes like the world builder releases before.