So there I was playing a multiplayer game as China. Settings were Immortal, Standard Size, Standard Resources, Domination Victory only. And I noticed that someone chose to play Spain. *weird* I thought. It wasn't long before I discovered they were on another continent, so I focused on conquering mine and didn't really think much more about it. Until...
By midgame I discovered that Spain had started the game with Lake Victoria, 2 wheat, 3 stone and 2 wine within the capital radius, and founded its 2nd City right next to King Solomon's Mines, 3 wheat, iron, coal, 2 stone. Its THIRD city was founded next to the Fountain of Youth AND Mount Kilimanjaro, 3 wheat and 3 stone. Obviously Spain had an empire of six cities by turn ten or so and just whomped everyone at every turn throughout the rest of the game.
My question is... is this even possible without mods? I've never seen a start like that in my life... as ANY civ. It really wasn't much fun to read that Spain built every wonder in the game and beat every other civ down at a leisurely pace (meaning actually just chilling out for a while to make sure he could build every wonder in the game before finally coming after ME, specifically with something like 60 XCom Squads...) resting on that frankly obscene starting advantage.
By midgame I discovered that Spain had started the game with Lake Victoria, 2 wheat, 3 stone and 2 wine within the capital radius, and founded its 2nd City right next to King Solomon's Mines, 3 wheat, iron, coal, 2 stone. Its THIRD city was founded next to the Fountain of Youth AND Mount Kilimanjaro, 3 wheat and 3 stone. Obviously Spain had an empire of six cities by turn ten or so and just whomped everyone at every turn throughout the rest of the game.
My question is... is this even possible without mods? I've never seen a start like that in my life... as ANY civ. It really wasn't much fun to read that Spain built every wonder in the game and beat every other civ down at a leisurely pace (meaning actually just chilling out for a while to make sure he could build every wonder in the game before finally coming after ME, specifically with something like 60 XCom Squads...) resting on that frankly obscene starting advantage.