What to do about techs?

[Cobra]

please read the last sentence again:
Better solution: Anybody who doesn´t want to play and has 2 minutes time starts the game as host and quits after starting.

[rah]

If we're with 4 experienced players, and it takes longer than 5 minutes to get a game started (due to techs ), it's an exception. I don't see it as a problem. More than 3 restarts is not common.

[Alexander's Horse]

we've had up to 7 or 8 starts with techs - settings seem to affect it.

[Hydey]

maybe its the games you start without techs but on crap land that affect it,

[rah]

7 or 8 WOW, very very very rare with us.

[Hydey]

we keep restarting until I get the crap land, that always gaurantees no techs

[Ming]

Yep... whenever I can't see any specials, no huts, no rivers, and a bunch of plains or hills... I know it's a clean start

[atawa]

Whats the most restarts ever?

I've been up to 12 once in a 4-player med map game