Huge North America Map - Always Same Spot?

[OzzyKP]

I just reloaded the game like a dozen times and each time I start right off the coast of northeast Brazil. It doesn't matter which civ I pick. Is this broken or is there a way to randomize it?

[OzzyKP]

I just opened the map up in world builder, I don't think I want to play this map anyhow. North America is ridiculously far west. It would take 10 turns or more to get to Europe from North America whereas South America can do it in like one or two turns.

Hopefully someone has made a better map.

One of these days Firaxis needs to hire a half-way decent mapmaker.

[snoopy369]

It's a bug, Dale has been dealing with it in the patch - I think it's explicitly fixed in the patch, actually.

[OzzyKP]

I went and fixed the issue myself.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=181182

[Dale]

What Snoopy means is there is a bug that if you specify starting locations on a WBS file, the AI won't settle at all. It'll just sail round and round in circles.

This is addressed in the Snoopy/Dale patch, but I haven't added that fix to AoD2 yet.

[OzzyKP]

Oh. Darn.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Dale
What Snoopy means is there is a bug that if you specify starting locations on a WBS file, the AI won't settle at all. It'll just sail round and round in circles.

This is addressed in the Snoopy/Dale patch, but I haven't added that fix to AoD2 yet.

Ok, so I combined the PatchMod with my map. I played the English and settled in New England. The Dutch settled in Louisiana, and it looks like the French & Spanish never settled. Half way through the game I found the Spanish caravel just sitting around, so I destroyed it with a privateer. When it respawned they went and finally settled.

I haven't found the French one yet.