No offense taken, the forest start was kinda cool, I hadn't even seen forests that big before.. took me more than 30 turns before I found a suitable place for city. Luckily I started with movement 4 ^^
I do like challenges and varying start locations.. but imagine pressing next turn for ~50+ turns in multiplayer while researching for seafaring tech, gathering gold for actually building harbor and ship etc. There's not much to do, build something every few turns and choose techs.
And that forest.. less of the same. At least exploring is bit more interesting. But starting with a 2 movement sovereign with no fighting skills whatsoever might really suck there.
In single player it's not really a problem, but in multiplayer starting places should be somewhat equal. Wasn't there a disadvantage earlier that had you start in worse place? That could still work imo.
Same start hear, posted with save and debug.err. The screen shots looks simular, maybe this is one of the old maps with a hardcoded starting point?
The forest map should've been random.. at least I didn't do anything special.
