Worst starting location ever! LOL

[Apolex]

I'm playing a 16-civ game on a huge world, pangea, emp, no mods. I went through much of the game trying to figure out where the 16th civ was. None of the other civs seemed to know either. Finally, someone found the poor Babs way out on Gilligans Island all by themselves! They were hopelessly stuck in the ancient era while the rest of the world was fighting with infantry lol.

Has anyone else seen the computer put a civ in such a terrible starting location before? It's pretty funny! It's also ironic, because as backwards and behind as the Babs are, they will probably be the last surviving civ due to their isolation and threat level! I'll most likely overrun all the others first before I get around to visiting their little islands lol. (I'm the Romans in the top left of the big continent.)

-Apolex
(edit: fixed typos)

[alva]

Could be something for Aeson
He loves this kind of start (on the other hand,
i don't see ice, so i might be to easy )

[Jon Shafer]

I had a starting location worse than that, 1 small island, all tundra before, just a few days ago. I thought to myself "maybe I should make a screenshot of this." Then I just laughed and started a new game.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Trip
I had a starting location worse than that, 1 small island, all tundra before, just a few days ago. I thought to myself "maybe I should make a screenshot of this." Then I just laughed and started a new game.

Trip! You shoulve brought a screenshot!

I've had bad starting locations before, although none as bad as that. However in Alpha Centauri, they seem to be rampant. If I choose a random map, i always start on a small island isolated from everyone.

[Jon Shafer]

Let's just say it was about 20 tiles total. About 5 hills, most everything else was forest. Everything was tundra. No river. And to top it off, I was an 'expansionist' civ (since I play 100% random games). I almost felt the urge to play it for a while just for kicks.

[OPD]

lol they can't even irrigate anything.

You'd think that they'd put a couple more cities down to get some more sea tiles but thats th AI for you.

[Nym]

It's not so bad: they have two islands with grasslands!

[Hurricane]

Also, they should´ve placed the capital on the hill to get an extra Whale. Too bad they always found the capital at the starting spot.

At least they have discovered mapmaking!

[Solver]

Poor guys... wonder if they can make it to the Middle Ages by the time you are in a space race?

[Jawa Jocky]

They should've squeezed more cities on that island.

[Arrian]

OUCH! That's absolutely terrible. They don't even have any stuff to trade, do they? I doubt even Aeson could have won with that start (well, since he consistently amazes me, I suppose that's a rash thing to say).

-Arrian

[Solver]

Arrian - where can I read about those famous Aeson's, erm, heroic works? I've somehow missed the stuff.

I imagine such a start in MP, noone would trade with the poor guy, and his Spearmen would eventually be facing Cavalry.

[alexman]

Notice what a terrible job the AI has done with city placement... They could have had 2-3 more cities on those islands, taking advantage of three extra whales.

Solver: The civ-god at work here

[Solver]

Civ-god, lol. Thanks for the link, alex.

Vel is thus far the best Civ 3 player, IMHO. What if I someday also become good ?

[Palleon]

Meh, I should have taken a screenshot of a game I started yesterday that I just started over. I had an island just marginally larger than those 2 combined, near the center of the map, but every square was a jungle. Every single one. At least there were dyes