Worst starting position ever!

[eyrei]

Originally posted by Dinorius R.
eyrei reply:

At the risk of adding to YET ANOTHER thread on starting positions (I mean everything that could have been said about this topic was said back in January) I must ask what on earth are you complaining about, you whiner? This is an excellent starting position and it would be exactly where you would expect a thriving civilization to have its roots. I cite the huge Eskimo civilization as a real-life example. Wish all my starting positions were like this. Don't change anything Firaxis! If you can't deal with this position how are you ever going to deal with all the 1-shield cities you make later in the game? Get used to eating whale blubber.


Zouave reply:

What do you expect from such an obviously flawed game that Firaxis rush-released before any kind of play-testing? Along with ships that can't be sunk by bombers, tanks that can't kill spearmen, cities that can't produce anything and totally bogus tech trading by the cheating AI, we have to contend with starting positions in Antarctica. Fix it Firaxis otherwise I'm releasing the rest of the anthrax.

Alright. I have to admit I found most of that pretty funny. On this particular topic, I probably would have said something like "Glad that didn't happen to me." Now if it had been corruption, or AI cheating, or anything that Zouave had posted ......

 

[john heidle]

How's this for a worst start? I'm alone on a continent that is almost all tundra. One lake, one whale, a few plains, two game, and a few grass after forests are cleared.

I'm not sure that my gif or jpg screenshots were attached.

 

[eyrei]

Ouch!

 

[cat98]

How about this? (sorry, no screen so I cant prove it, but is was on a young world)

I was stuck in a river valley, 2 squares of grass, with a river, and 1 square of forest, then some mountains with gems. Then more mountains. A screen full of mountains. And another valley. Yeehaw. I survived the entire game because I was so very isolated. I was the only one on half of the continent, but it was all mountains with the occasional valley! I amused myself by laying claim to the entire mountainrange and sending out the occasional raiding party to harras border towns. (remembers the unbreakable line of fortified pikemen defeating tanks)

 

[MoonDragn]

Wow that IS the worse spot ever, but then if it is random I bet the computer doesn't have it any better because the whole world is like that.

I had a start once that was on a river next to one mountain and alot of desert and flood plains. The island was full of nothing but plains and desert and the southern end full of jungle. The whole game was a struggle til I found out I was sitting next to an unoccupied island that was full of bonus grassland DOH!

 

[rdomarat]

Here's a screenshot of a game where someone stumbled onto the Americans in the worst starting position of all time IMHO. It makes the other starting positions shown on this thread look like a fertile river valley.

 

[cat98]

Good God. I can just see that in the modern age, all these metropolises and then, America. A wonder of the world, the most primitive society known to man.

The sad thing about that spot, is not the desert, but the fact that they couldent irigate the desert with all that water right there... Poor Abe.

 

[eyrei]

Originally posted by cat98
Good God. I can just see that in the modern age, all these metropolises and then, America. A wonder of the world, the most primitive society known to man.

Actually, with 1.17 tech trading, they would probably be quite advanced.

 

[cat98]

WHAT!? NO MORE PET PRIMITIVES!? NOOOooo...

I like keeping the Babalonies as primitive pets! I dont want them to discover electricity! Bad patch! Baaad patch! Stay away from my pet civ!

Is there a bug that allows the ai to trade when it shouldnt be able too? What else is wrong?