Is this the sign of a bad player to start new games until you ''like'' your start ?

[historix69]

Maybe some of you remember the Imperialism-series. Imperialism used a deterministic Map-generator which allowed to set a seed (= character-string). The same seed produced the same map. It was very comfortable since you could communicate good maps by just posting the seed.

I think this might be an interesting feature for civ, too, to easily share / exchange "good rolls" ...

 

[karolyzazz]

It depends on Difficulty Level and Victory Conditions.
If you play on Immortal (Deity) level or going for SC (Culture) victory - good starting position is absolutely crucial. Example - you stand no chance in tundra.

 

[DemonMaster]

Tested the celts today and on my first trial, one forest tile and then jungle for (at least) ten tiles around. I hate jungle. Well for some civs it can work, but overall, I hate jungle.

My second trial after that I started out in the desert and a very large one. Sure I had a forest tile, an oasis and more salt than the dead sea besides me, but that was pretty much it. I don't hate desert per se, but no I want forest for this game.

I will play re-start and play another civ instead. I take on the celts another day

 

[Lord Kid]

Played out a 3 billion year old fractal as Pachacuti. Had tech lead and top military. I was surrounded by Sweden to the north and Hiawatha to the south. Hiawatha was a bud with DoF and DP, but Sweden had teamed up with Arabia and Persia to take him on after he took out Russia for her war mongering ways. Greece, Rome, and Ethiopia were on another continent. I made it to the modern era hoping I would get oil and aluminum due to the total lack of iron and coal, but they never showed. I could see Sweden was gearing up to attack me, and Alex had total control over all the CS' with oil and alum so I just dropped it as a lost cause.

 

[PreLynMax]

I ALWAYS restart if I have a bad start. It doesn't mean I'm a bad player, it just means I have a EXTREMELY LOW TOLERANCE for BULL<snip>. I never play on a water map, there's not enough land for me to do anything, so they get restarted, too. See? Low tolerance.

 

[Billy Rubin]

I play games to have fun - sometimes I enjoy a perfect start (and thus pick legendary start in ressource conditions), sometimes I enjoy a more challenging situation.

Most of the time, I don't restart because of the overall qulity of my starting spot but rather because the climate and ressources are absolutely unfitting for the civ I picked.

I don't play Civ in MP and being good or bad is entirely irrelevant in singleplayer games as long as it's fun.

 

[control740]

Personally, I like the challenge of a bad start; however, sometimes it can be *really* bad. Like starting in Alaska on an Earth map.

 

[headcase]

I just wish you could change the difficulty on turn 1 (removing\adding AI units to match the new difficulty). Bad start? Lower the difficulty a notch. Good start? Raise it a notch. (then again sometimes the area around the start can change one's opinion after turn 1).

As it is I too often play Prince and get too good a start, play higher and get too poor a start, etc. I do like that there's randomness, but yeah I reroll sometimes.

The worst is not having any rivers nearby. They have a lot of advantages. Not a dealbreaker not to have them, but it is harmful.