Request: Choose start position selection order

[stagnate]

I was thinking that a monarch game with the last start position pick probably plays similar to an emperor game with the first start position, and that it'd be nice to be able to choose when your start position is selected.

Now, this is a bit hard because map scripts can screw with this, so I don't think you can do it there. However, if you could do something after the map script is called, and check each start location and shuffle, it might be doable.

The bad news is that I'm lazy and don't know much/anything about modding, so I probably won't do it. Does anyone out there think this is a decent idea and worth trying? Worst case I may manually modify some map scripts that I use (and map makers may choose to make it an option for their scripts), but it'd be nice to have it be a small mod that works regardless of script.

 

[MrPopov]

seems like there should be a simple way to just reverse the order or randomize it. I've also wondered about this in MP games. Does it depend on what seat the player has? f.ex if the first 3 seats in a 4 player game are taken up by the host and 2 AI, would the other player who has seat 4 get the last start position or does it favor human players over AI?

 

[stagnate]

Well, some (possibly not all?) map scripts do randomize the order. Because the map scripts can decide the placement there is no generic place to change placement order. However, you can swap them around once the map script is done.

The downside is that it would screw with historical placement and the like, but that may be a tradeoff that is worthwhile.