Regenerating starts and saving in MP...

[brades]

A few questions, totally unrelated

Has anyone found a way to regen their start at 4000 bc? Exiting out to the main menu everytime stinks. Am I really to believe that the regenerate map feature was not used all the time in civ4? Personally, I loved it. If I didn't like my capital I would rarely finish out the entire game.

2nd, Me and a buddy tried a multiplayer game, we both have very good computers (i7s) and strong internet connections. By 0 AD, with only 2-3 cities a piece the game was painfully slow between turns, it reminded me of huge maps, late game in civ 4 on my old single core cpu. Was it something on one of our ends? Slow internet or something? Or is everyone who attempts MP having this problem.

Lastly, painfully slow MP isn't the end of the world, me and my buddy could chat while we wait, no big deal, but we could find no way to save the game. So not only does the game become unbearably slow very early on, there is no way to save it. Eventually we just abandoned it and played single player games while staying on vent chatting. Am I missing something? Is there a way to save it?

 

[Zelig]

Just pick the "legendary start" option in the advanced game setup if you really want a good starting location.

 

[Tomice]

Agreed. Regenerate map is very useful, I miss it!

 

[Dandenoth]

Just pick the "legendary start" option in the advanced game setup if you really want a good starting location.

I, uhm, may abuse this a little....

 

[Welnic]

Saving in MP is broken at the moment. But it does autosave, so you can restart your game from those. You can hit Control-S to save, but you have to move that file to the autosave folder and rename it so that it fits in with the autosave format, so I have just been using autosaves.

 

[brades]

Saving in MP is broken at the moment. But it does autosave, so you can restart your game from those. You can hit Control-S to save, but you have to move that file to the autosave folder and rename it so that it fits in with the autosave format, so I have just been using autosaves.

Thanks, good to know.

 

[brades]

Just pick the "legendary start" option in the advanced game setup if you really want a good starting location.

It's not that I want a ridiculously OP start, more than anything I look for an interesting start, a nearby choke point, a floodplain river, an all forest start, etc. I'm under the impression that the way c4 decided what resources were going to be in your BFC was by basically alloting you a certain number of points for your capital, each tile being worth something, it would plop you in a location, add up the score, and adjust accordingly. If the score was too low it might add a river, or turn tundra into grassland, or give you a gold mine. If the legendary start allows for a higher capital 'score' than I am not interested in this and would just rather have regenerate map back.

 

[kaltorak]

I also loved to regenerate the start on civ4. And I hope we get a way to do it in civ5.
But it really isn't that gamebreaking as in civ4. The surroundings of a city say much less about how good it is going to be, or in what it is going to specialize, than the buildings you do in the city.

So yeah, city placement isn't that important as in civ4. You only need to get as many luxury resources in your border as possible.

It's kind of sad, I liked great placements versus bad ones.