[0.291 Gameplay] Bad starting location

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Starting a new game, my sovereign was placed next to a plot of fertile ground, on an unoccupied tile, but otherwise completely surrounded by forest.  I founded a city, but my sovereign did not move away from the city like it usually does.  I moved him one tile diagonally away from the city and tried to build a hut, but found that no buildings were selectable from the list:

debug.err is here.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Well, you need to research farming (3 turn)  and build a farm (20 turn) to be able to access to non forest tile.s So it is workable but clearly a bad start.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

So you think it's working as designed that I can't build a hut?  Maybe so, but it's still a bad starting location nevertheless.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Well, nothing were forcing you to build a city on your exact starting location. Have you moved and waited 1 turn before building your city, you would have been able to build your city on the other side of the fertile land.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

And if my starting position had been 10 tiles away from a farm, I could have just used 10 turns to move to the farm before founding my city.  It's still a bad starting location.