Bad Starting Positions: Restart or play on?

[Messer Niccolò]

Originally posted by The_Aussie_Lurker

What surprises me, though, is that no-one has voted for "whines that Civ3 sucks" option, given the number of people who do claim it sucks here on the forum! .

Yours,
The_Aussie_Lurker.

Here I am... I whine!

Originally posted by The_Aussie_Lurker
Well, I ALWAYS stick it out to the bitter end becuase I reckon "Hell, if the real-life Egyptians could make a go of a DESERT, then I can't complain!" .

Why not? Are you Egyptian? And look where they are now! Not competitive! Whine again...

[Alex]

I play on. Till the bitter end, if necessary. I like to be defeated from time to time, so I can get ready for the devastation that multiplayer games will be.

[August Borms]

Play a few turns, then restart if the terrain doesn't get any better

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by Alexnm
I play on. Till the bitter end, if necessary. I like to be defeated from time to time, so I can get ready for the devastation that multiplayer games will be.

Right on

I'd like to play my first online game against Aeson, Theseus and some other "deity" guys . After such a traumatizing experience, things can only getting better!

[SpencerH]

I usually play everything random on monarch and I restart if I judge that the start position immediately requires my going to war. My current game required 5 restarts and my best city made it up to size 10 before running out of food. My opponents are currently averaging 12-16 size cities.

[Bella Hella]

Originally posted by SpencerH
I usually play everything random on monarch and I restart if I judge that the start position immediately requires my going to war.

exactly my situation. if i have two or more "neighbors" right up my @$$ at the very beginning, i don't hesitate to restart. on the other hand, i'll usually play out starting positions on bad terrain. that's what industrial workers are for! i'm about to win a game that started in the middle of a HUGE jungle, but i have another game going where i started on mountains/snow, which probably won't turn out as well.

i'm trying to get used to the idea of HAVING to play out crap starting positions, as we'll have to do in MP.

[Adagio]

On a side note: Once I have had a such bad starting position, that it simply just needed a restart, though it wasn't in Civ, it was in a game (AoE a-like) released about a year ago I think...Don't remember the name, but in the game you don't have any flying transportation (The game was about building a castle), which made it impossible to play the game, when you were stuck on a rock, there were NO way down to my enemies...And since this was my first game (and playing MP), I didn't try it much afterwards...played one or two games more...

[Alex]

Originally posted by ADG
Don't remember the name, but in the game you don't have any flying transportation (The game was about building a castle),

Stronghold?

[Adagio]

I guess that's the name...

[georges bonbon]

I always play on huge pangea maps with 16 civilizations on emperor level.

Playing on isn't an option to win the game. The AI is too agressive.

[Alex]

Originally posted by georges bonbon
Playing on isn't an option to win the game. Th AI is too agressive.

Sometimes, when I play on despite of a crappy starting position, I don't want exactly to win the game. The challenge for me consists in make my civ goes powerful enough and productive enough to overcome any substantial disadvantage I may suffer in the later stages of the game. That is essentially a victory for me, even when I don't "win" the game.

[dojoboy]

Generally, I play the game. However, since I'm new to the emperor level, I'll restart if its a dismal placement.

[wilbill]

Some of the games I've enjoyed most began with bad starting positions. When you're dead last after 15 or 20 turns, surviving can be a major accomplishment and if you can finish the game in 2nd or 3rd place, it actually feels as good as winning. I think I've been forced to think about my strategies, try new approaches, and learn the intricacies of the game to a greater degree in these bad starts than I do when I'm in the lead from the beginning.

[vmxa1]

I think Aeson shows that there is no bad start, in the game called So Very Cold. Some are just better than others.

[Zero-Tau]

I usually restart, simply because it's more fun for me. Sure, getting a bad start is a challenge, but I prefer to put off the challenges until later in the game, when most civs have met each other.