i felt like that with my 5 gem starts, i even had plenty of food.
It happens sometimes, i had been playing isolated island games, and fancied a domination pangea game... so i rolled INCANS on a pangea and got floodplains, wet wheat and 3 gold
In contrast ive just started an archipelago game as roosevelt and i have 1 sheep (plains hill) and a crab in the bfc and am surrounded by tundra and ice, ill be very happy if i win this one