Way too Close
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So I am a little frustrated with the starting locations in this game. I can play on a huge map with one other player and he will find me in under 20 turns, and he will have started about that far from me.
Please make us start farther away, with how close we start it is way too easy to to rush a attack spell and take their capital.
Yes, I know wat you mean.
Started a new game in 1.08, on Large map with 6 opponents just an hour ago. I can say I found 4 other sovereign capital within 30 tiles of my own capital!!! It is really crowded down here with the 5 of us competing for the same tile, while the rest of map is totally deserted. (80% unused)
In the my game in 1.06 while playing on Large map, the same thing happened. Discovered 5 out of 6 opponents within 100 turns. Within the next 50 turns, 3 sovereign did suicide attacks and died. At around 250 turn, Kraxis declared war on me, and was exterminated by turn 300, ending with 1 discovered sovereign and 1 unknown sovereign. Within the next 100 turns, I discovered the last unknown sovereign, almost exterminate the previous known sovereign and discover, the eastern and north-eastern side of the map is totally vacant and filled with so much resources.
I really hope Stardock is doing something about this.
Sometimes they're not next to you, they find you via other means (maps to settlements, or the mysterious influence spread you get from quest locations).
I believe for both my cases, the 6 different opponents start out very near to where my capital started. Its hard to get a nice slow long game where you still see most of your opponents around by 1000+ turns.
In my latest game 1.08. I started near the coast. To my north and west is the sea. I can see Thath kingdom capital to my east, 30 tiles away. To the south of my city, I see the capital of Altar, 30 tiles away. Slightly south-easten to Altar is Magna city, 30 tiles away. To south-western to ALtar is Kraxis city, 30 tiles away. East of Thath Capital is Gilden, 30 tiles away.
As I type this, I hope that there is something like a world builder similar to Civ4 available in EWOM.
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