Spread out civs more on start?

[Valatros]

Curious if there's an XML edit somewhere that could effect this. Even if I play on a huge map (including an absolutely massive map that I edited to be possible), with 6 civs, on "Continents", every damn time there are three of the bastards within 10-15 tiles. I prefer to have little to no early foreign contact, though one nearby neighbour is acceptable, but no matter how big I make the map it clusters us all together. I understand wanting to shrink the map compared to civ 5 as movement is quite a bit more expensive per-hex when you're not allowed to hit negative Move, but for fudgs sake clustering us within the same 40x40 tile block on a map 140x80 or some crap is ridiculous.

 

[iwannadownload]

Credit: Reddit, /u/malvekiar.

• First in \Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Assets\Maps\Utility Open AssignStartingPlots.lua. Find the line with local iMaxStart = GlobalParameters.STARTDISTANCE_MAJOR_CIVILIZATION or 9. It should be in the function AssignStartingPlots:_MajorCivBuffer(plot). Edit the number at the end to the number of tiles you want minimally between starting plots (I have used 20).
  
  
• The variable GlobalParameters.START_DISTANCE_MAJOR_CIVILIZATION can be found in \Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's CivilizationVI\Base\Assets\Gameplay\Data/GlobalParameters.xml. I edited that as value as well, setting it to 20 (original was 9 same as the script). (source with more context)
  

 

[greygr]

Thanks you man! I'll try this soon

 

[Valatros]

Credit: Reddit, /u/malvekiar.

• First in \Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Assets\Maps\Utility Open AssignStartingPlots.lua. Find the line with local iMaxStart = GlobalParameters.STARTDISTANCE_MAJOR_CIVILIZATION or 9. It should be in the function AssignStartingPlots:_MajorCivBuffer(plot). Edit the number at the end to the number of tiles you want minimally between starting plots (I have used 20).
  
  
• The variable GlobalParameters.START_DISTANCE_MAJOR_CIVILIZATION can be found in \Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's CivilizationVI\Base\Assets\Gameplay\Data/GlobalParameters.xml. I edited that as value as well, setting it to 20 (original was 9 same as the script). (source with more context)

Oh my god, thank you so much. I actually got so annoyed I gave up on playing civ 6 until mods at least let me check the map first. Made this thread out of a stray hope and bam delivered like a boss!

 

[greygr]

it works perfectly!

 

[Daft73]

Thanks for this guys!