Request: Ugly Starts

[paulfish]

hello

I got a bad start it is on a big map but i am on a small island.
I have yet to make it off the island I am try now.
no resource execpt in the sea
here is the save.

 

[morchuflex]

Here you are...
Note: it is the French version of the game. Not sure it will play correctly on your PC.
Settings are archipelago, max water, random climate, no barbs, 7 civs, emperor level, default options.

 

[Uiler]

Uiler, do you have a save?

Sure. Though, it is vanilla civ not conquerors and it's Chieftain level. I was bored and just starting new games over and over again to see what the worse start I could get was. Still I think in Conquerors you could probably extract the map? Or at least play it on a higher level? Maybe? I played a little of it on Chieftain. Man...By the time I finished building one warrior and was in the middle of building my first settler the English had already founded a city right next to me. They have two cows, incense and a whale in their starting position. AND this is with the chieftain penalties to the AI as well. I'd be really interested if you could win with this. I had to zip it because the message board kept on giving me "too large" error messages for the .sav file.

 

[pedrobobo]

Hey, there is a bonus food tile on that island!

The map generator seems to love those rock islands...

Save?

it also has fresh water, but that won't help a whole lot...

 

[pedrobobo]

edit: I am having trouble with the screenie... first time trying to add an attachment - was to big -

I have had fun with this start and thought I might share. It is a small (64 tile by my count), islolated island that has to rely on fishing villages to survive (only 4 non tundra squares [hills] - excluding tundra with forrest)

map settings:

Large
80% Ocean
Continents
Wet
Cool
5 Billion Years
386125984

have fun

 

[Rik Meleet]

Brainstorming: What I'd consider the worst start ever is a 2 tile island; 1 plains (or grass or even BG) and 1 volcano.

 

[Tomoyo]

What about a nine-tile island, where it goes:

[pre]M M M
M P M
M M M[/pre]

M is Mountain, P is flood plain.

 

[rbis4rbb]

What about a nine-tile island, where it goes:

[pre]M M M
M P M
M M M[/pre]

M is Mountain, P is flood plain.

Switch the mountaisn to volcanoes and then you have an ugly start.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Sure, those are nightmares, but like one-tile islands, the map generator isn't that cruel. I think the start in DocT3 is the worst I've ever seen, and still it can be won on Emperor.

 

[Tomoyo]

Switch the mountaisn to volcanoes and then you have an ugly start.

Put a wheat on the flood plain just for tantalizing the player.

 

[Theoden]

This is the most hopeless map I ever got from the RNG. It was an attempt to get a good start for a Sid game

The start is just between the two gold and the fish.

Theoden