worst starting position ever !!!!!!!

[hydey]

Map size 32X32
4 human players
I took mongols and found myself on the south pole sent setlers out (one to the left one to the right) when my settlers met in 3200 bc I realised that I was stuck on the pole
Has anyone had worse than this ?

[Makeo]

and you didn't come last

[hydey]

Thats right Makeo I guess that means I'm not the worst player in the world anymore

[Ming]

hydey... that's a tough one to beat

But, that sounds like a perfect start to use for the arctic challange.

[Curumbor Elendil]

Actually, I've started out on the pole before, and I think it was a 40x50 map. You play with 4 players on a 32x32 map and somebody's bound to get screwed.

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[finbar]

Yeah, I came last in Hydey's Arctic Capers game. Makeo found me very early on and wiped me out. Except I was hosting, Civs were checked not to restart, the host transfer screwed up ... and the game disappeared down the plughole into Civ history! I can proudly claim to have come last in a winnerless game!

PS: Hydey, all you had to do was build on the tundra, wait for Map Making, build a boat and slip across to some land. Chee. Talk about a whinger.

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[Alexander's Horse]

Don't stand close to Hydey in a thunderstorm!

[finbar]

Better still, don't stand near him when he's mowing.

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[oedo]

I had those starts in civ2.42. So I could imagine that sooner or later someone gets a start like this in MP.
Next time feel free to insist on a restart .

[rah]

We play on small small worlds and I will let someone call for a restart if that occurs.

RAH

[Alexander's Horse]

We had a few restarts for techs and one for terrain. When Hydey asked for a restart off the ice I told him to stop whining - it would be a test of his ingenuity. Best part was, he bought it

[Ming]

AH... Maybe my company should offer you a job in sales... If you could sell that line, you could sell anything

[Smash]

LOL..stop whining...thats great.

I have had no less than 6 of these starts.4 with purple and 2 with orange.Doesn't take long for your 2 settlers to meet up again.Always on small or tiny maps.

hehehe..stop whining and just play will ya...LOL... that is funny.

[common_terry]

i host small worlds with small land mass, 5 or 6 civs kingx2x2.
i play purple and go last so if anyone starts on the pole it is me. starting on the pole is fun. ive won 3 games that way out of ~30 played from the pole. Sometimes i dont have a way off the pole. i build a city on the turndra with a whale and hopefully a fur. i go straight for map making.
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[Alexander's Horse]

Hydey actually went right around the world too, about 20 turns worth of play. We didn't know he had no access to land at all, he'd been making jokes about such a thing earlier so I for one didn't believe him for a long time. I actually saw one of settlers go past my island on the fringe of the map.

When finbar got eliminated he finally convinced us it was true, after a plaintive "what do I do now" message when his settlers met. The game folded anyway because the host didn't transfer. I wonder how long we could have kept him playing

We couldn't believe a. that he went along with it and b. that he kept playing as long as he did. After the game, finbar went into Hydey's civ and confirmed that what he had been saying was true. He was playing Mongol.

Lucky he wasn't telling us he was having a heart attack:

"Get up you wimp"

"Yeah right Hydey, next you'll be saying your stuck in the ice on the edge of the map."
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