Natural Wonder Starting Bias?

[joncnunn]

Not too hard apparently. I recently asked this question myself on the Mods subforum, and a really helpful guy responded. Here is the thread:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=508236

Thanks! On my next game, the city states won't be hogging the natural wonders.

Now if only there was a way to tell city states to either form on a river or well away from one and not be one hex away from them.

 

[Sabrina]

I recently started a fairly standard map (Continents, Difficulty 4) playing as Spain. Although I was on the coast, the only resources near me were 2 Stone and 1 Ivory. However, 2 turns exploring revealed that Mt Sinai was literally within 3 tiles of Madrid. Hence it wasn't long before I was generating a whopping +16 Faith, and subsequently bossing it on the Religion front.

I've never started so close to a natural wonder before - is this Starting Bias particular to Spain? Or did I just get rather lucky?

Very lucky, I would say, I played a lot as Spain and never managed to get a natural wonder close to my capital. The other cities, of course, I tried to settle close to natural wonders. Now, every time I find one early in the game I regret the fact I'm not playing as Spain any longer

 

[BuzWeaverCiv]

If I were to disable the Starting Bias, this would make the AI a little more equal to my Noob game play?

 

[UnofficialJoe]

just to note there are usually 5 wonder per map I think on standard (could be wrong). so if your on continents your pretty much guaranteed 2 or 3 on your continent (Guessing they are equally spread ) and seeing as there's only 4 civs nearby your gonna find them pretty fast every continents game I've play I found a NW super fast

 

[civ54lyfe]

If I were to disable the Starting Bias, this would make the AI a little more equal to my Noob game play?

it can completely screw over AI's like the Celts, slow down the Inca, slow down Egypt, for just a few examples of AI who have terrain unique abilities. i only threw Egypt in there because often times desert starts are really powerful.

 

[joncnunn]

While on the other hand, you would probably help the AIs with Jungle start bias.

Also, Egypt doesn't have a Desert starting bias. Arabia & Morocco do.

Egypt instead gets an avoid jungle & avoid forest start.