24-01-2003 22:35									#1
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The "best" start I ever had - cermonial burial and alphabet included ..Its 4000 b.c.
small map, 7 civs, ...

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	24-01-2003 22:44									#2
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Check out the 'Hard Times' succession game start

Those small maps will do that sometimes... especially if you're purple!

	25-01-2003 02:27									#3
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That would even be good for a restart in an MP game.

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	25-01-2003 05:23									#4
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if you play purple on a tiny rock in mp you get these starts once in a blue moon, they happen more in sp mode i have noticed....

	25-01-2003 16:58									#5
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Lol nice start.......though in SP it is fun to try and play them, at least if there some land to the south.

MP=toast.

	25-01-2003 21:16									#6
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actually often in mp games if you wander a few turns there will be an isthmus , but in sp, i have wandered the whole top of the map board to find nada

they left u a furs, i usually get game or whatever that frozen lamb is in glacier or tundra....looks a bit like its frozen in ice

	25-01-2003 21:21									#7
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Hehe, IIRC it's musk ox.

	25-01-2003 21:40									#8
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musk ox, thats it, looks like a frozen wooly mammoth to me....all i know is its good for food and nothing else..

	25-01-2003 21:42									#9
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Yeah you don't get it often, but sometimes you have a city with a small amount of tundra, or you found near a pole and have a couple of squares of tundra. I can think of specials I'd rather have though.

	25-01-2003 21:51									#10
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you dont' even get trade if you road it...that IMO in mp is a waste, unless you build on a mountain to make a canal to come out the other side, then the food is welcome, otherwise, screw it....

	25-01-2003 22:40									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man Those small maps will do that sometimes... especially if you're purple!

I always suspected my starts were cursed.

But seriously, I don't believe I've ever seen a game-generated map that has polar areas. I really liked SMAC maps in that respect. I usually play on Large worlds, though. Maybe that's the reason?

	25-01-2003 22:52									#12
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yes that is the reason, never had a polar start on a large world, or even a medium one...its small only IIRC and usually only happens to purple or orange

	25-01-2003 22:54									#13
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Yeah the way the game places the settlers makes polar starts unlikely for larger maps.

	26-01-2003 00:10									#14
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the way the game decides whats a good start is

	26-01-2003 00:55									#15
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Eh? What didn't you get about my statement? You echoed its sentiments above.

	26-01-2003 01:00									#16
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there was no confusion, its confusing trying to understand how the game thinks that a polar start is a good start. or any start for that matter

	26-01-2003 01:02									#17
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Ok....your gutter english threw me.

	26-01-2003 01:50									#18
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really, your eloquent choice of words reminds me of another poster who loved to show off his choice vocabulary....good thing i went to university...otherwise i wouldn't know how to pick a smart @$$ out of the bunch

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I didn't know refuse collection needed a degree in Canada.

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refuse collection? nah, i work for the govt helping the poor see

	26-01-2003 15:24									#21
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You work for the Vatican, Warz - I don't believe it!

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Oh and Purple - do you play on flat maps? On round maps there is always a pair of polar regions, but we don't normally start there...