Medieval Start is best for a fast paced game.

[chastiser]

You start with a worker and two settlers which quickens the game by a lot.

But WHY nobody plays medieval do these people really want to play Ancient for 6 hours???

Medieval start works best!

 

[Biz_]

and all the civs with ancient UU's are crying

 

[ddd123]

my online games usually last 1h or so, surely not even close to 6h

and for any era there are civs with useless UU

 

[sesaMe]

ren start seems to play quite well, but ofc france and ottoman are overpowered >: i honestly think ainchent era MP games should start with 2 settlers a worker and some units, like the other era games

 

[CanuckSoldier]

Actually on CivPlayers leagues, Ren/Ind 2v2 teamers are becoming more prevalent than anc games lately for exactly that reason, they have faster starts and warfare is more interesting than the same old anc games.

www.civplayers.com

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/civplayers

steam://friends/joinchat/103582791431089902

CS

 

[Slvynn]

we play ren often because it is most (but still not completely) balanced civ wise - in ren starts u can have units from classical to industrial era, and most of civs have something (uu or ub) in that period, greece is not overpowered but still have somehting (well cheap 5 move unit with 14 str at early start is still neat) - only overpowered civ is france, but that for all eras.

Also ren have much wider policy choice, and 4-5 trees are viable for choosing depending on map-civ-start loc.

Medieval start have greece terribly overpowered, france even more so, and civ balance is not so smooth like in ren.
But medi is good if no greece.