scenario question-earth map

[Ranulf]

Is there anyway to set it up so when playing on Earth, I the civ I choose to play as starts in the location it started at in real life? Its just weird to set up an Earth game and play as the americans yet have Washington sitting next to the Nile... GRRR..

 

[DarkSchneider]

I agree, it is idiotic, the map editor doesn't even allow you to designate Civilization specific starting spots (or much of anything for that matter, all you're really allowed to do is change global rules and place terrain)

 

[Avenkeri]

The Earth map huge and standard has many really bad errors. In Scales etc. and lot of errors with mineral locations. At least Europe definitely wont look what it really is. Civilization II had a lot better maps.

 

[Striker]

Another helpful thing would be letting us be able to zoom in and out so when we make our own map we can get a sense of what your doing.....

I wish someone would put in a mod pack to fix that.

 

[Panzergranadier]

I have the same question.
I'm starting to think that it is impossible to edit civs starting locations.
If someone know who to do it or has a pre-defined star. loc. map, please, let us know.

 

[Westly]

Using Civ3 Edit you can set the starting locations by placing "Player Start" tags on the map by selecting "Select Overlay" and then "Player Starting Location." Although you can set the starting locations you cannot control which civ uses which starting location tag you put on the map. Futhermore the game often completely ignores these tags and makes all starting locations random. When this happens I'll usually start in the same random location like ten or fifteen times in a row which makes me believe the algorithim the program uses to set starting locations is not totally random otherwise I would start in a different random location everytime I load the senario. I have found that the program is more likely to use the starting location tags if I make sure there are 16 tags on the map. When the program decides to use the starting location tags you may end up starting on the wrong tag too. The trick to starting in the right place for your civ is to keep loading the senario until you do. I have found that when I start on a tag the other civs likely start on a tag as well. In one game I had to load the senario a few dozen times to start in America as the Americans. The Britians started in Brazil, the Iroquois in Greenland, the Russians in Europe and Western Russia, The Egyptians in Eastern Russia, the Germans in Saudi Arabia, the Japanese in China and finally the French in Africa. At least the other civs started on tags too. It was funny because the Iroquois managed to build one and only one city througout the WHOLE GAME. I guess Greenland was too cold for them Many times on the diplomacy screen he referred to his empire of one city as the Mighty Iroquois.

 

[AdamSmo]

Originally posted by Westly
Many times on the diplomacy screen he referred to his empire of one city as the Mighty Iroquois.

ROTF!