What is your favorite starting location on Earth map . This is a hard one for me . But I would have to say Northern Africa / with access to the Middle East for strategic and economic reasons . I think most of my poweful games come from that area .
What is your favorite starting location on Earth map . This is a hard one for me . But I would have to say Northern Africa / with access to the Middle East for strategic and economic reasons . I think most of my poweful games come from that area .
At least the last time I played it, with G&K, the new wonders didn't show up. If they now do I'll play it more often, but my past experience tells me the Americas are good (lots of space not much competition, esp in S America) and Africa, again because it's not as crowded.
Along the Nile, or in Europe. For some reason, though, I always seem to get either South America or Siberia. Makes contacting AIs to sell luxes very difficult.
I don't know about favorite, but I can answer my least favorite: Western tip of Alaska. I tried to salvage a crap start by rushing embark tech and crossing over to Siberia, but china was right on the other side. Managed to get another city up on western coast of North America, but by that time I was far behind in tech, so I just quit the game.
Japan has kinda similar starting position as England. Isolated but with lots of islands around to expand to. The fact that these islands have also different lux makes the expansion more fun. Moreover, there is the natural wonder (Fuji) in the main island of Japan which can be helpful.
Take your lemons and make lemonade !!!
anywhere but Asia. i always started in Asia and it was boring to be in roughly the same place each time. i was always somewhere between India's delta or north China. ideally, south america and africa would be fun.