Locked alliances aka team game

[El Conquistador]

So I just started this team game (three teams of two players each) in single player mode. I decided to choose Ghandi to lead my civilization; turns out I don't get his starting techs but my teammate Alexanders. What's up with that?

Other than that, I really like the way I can ask my teammate to research something and they'll actually do it , () and the speeding through the tech tree together thing.

Did YOU give team games a try in single player mode yet?

[byrath]

Not single player, but the wife and I are playing a LAN game as a team, against 3 teams of 2 AI each. It is noticably tougher than playing as a team against single AI, thats for sure. They are keeping up much better in tech, and if one civ gets pissy and decides to war, you get two civs on you.

[El Conquistador]

Retried a couple of times; turns out the whole not getting your own techs but your teammates' thing happens every time. Wait a sec, let's try what happens when I join a team of 3!

[El Conquistador]

Damn, apparantly, when in teams, you'll get the starting technologies that come with the civilization listed highest in the ranking/score system. (The human player never starts out on top.) Does anyone know how the order of this list is determined? (even if their scores are equal, somebody always gets listed first) Alphabetical order of either leader name or civilization name does not seem to be it.