updated to 1.09r, started a new game on megamap 10 other nations at normal, playing custom sov & nation and default settings for game, used no fog cheat to look at map on turn 1, NO resources ANYWHERE on map, played on collecting 7 npc's before founding capital did not see ANY monsters until ONE turn after founding capital when the monsters spawned from the furthest square of forest from my capital in very large numbers.
as usual added my games elemental folders excluding maps to the zip
harpo
