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Settings:
Archi map (was no option for fractal archi), low seas, huge, no vassals, no tech trading, civs as requested, and all victory conditions enabled. No other special conditions, and the game is on a 20 hour turn time.

DM's will not be tolerated unless the general consensus is that all attempts were made by the DMer to avoid having to do it. Not a lawyer so I don't know how to be ridiculously specific about this, but you're all grown ups and no how to handle this.

My start is absolute poo :( hows everyone elses?

complete crap...

Mine's playable

Mine is very very....oh wait, i am not even playing this game...;)

My start is uhhh... well interesting would be a good way to put it

I would not be against a restart- just so folk know.

Main reason is i have tundra outside my fat cross and then ice after that.

Yeah, I have an crap starting spot as well. So is everyone cool with a restart then?

My capital is ok, but I have my doubts about the surroundings.

How many times do we want to restart? Can we at least let the other's check thier spot? Maybe you three are the only ones with bad starts.

Hm, three out of six starts are crap. How much chance do you think there is everyone will have a reasonable start when we restart? By the way, this is what you get with archipelago maps anyway.

If we restart we should ask someone not in this game to generate a map and check the starting positions.

I think thats the best idea. I dont mind playing on with this game just i wouldnt playing a start which has some appeal.

Well, starts on archipelago maps are mostly crappy especially after RtW that would seem for China and thus BCLG became quite upset. ;)

Checking the starts by somebody not playing is a good idea IMO, just to make sure that everyone gets a crappy start.

I don't mind playing it either, just thought I'd wait for a yay or nay from you lot :)

I'm fine with this idea if we can find someone (Beam?). I just don't want to keep rerolling starts for a week or so.

My start is not bad at all, but how do we judge a good start?

I like it! That doesn't mean it's a good or bad start, but it's definately a start that's worth playing...

Well lets just carry on then, the majority of people seem happy with their start :)

I get network does not exist when i try to log on to the Hamachi client.

mine green lighting by the game, try a re-load?

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Got in and played. Start is fine. Thanks for hosting Mauerdude.

From what i read no one got a brilliant start, we all seem to have some issues. I would say play on, overcoming a less the ideal start is part of the challenge.

Also as Barbu said, how do you judge how good a start is, it is a subjective thing. One way would be for all of us to post our starting positions but would we all agree to that? Even then we we need a good 20-30 turns exploring to really work out what we have to work with for the begining of the game.

Play on it is then. Good luck to all. Also....Simon is a bastard. Just thought I'd get that out of the way.

yeah play on... a bad start usually means a prime city nearby... law of averages.

OK I had a second look and I have a very nice start, but that does not mean I'm going to have horses, Iron or Cooper!

What is the civstat password? I'd like to register the game for the free spam.
thanks

spam

thanks!

Killercane and I have got exactly the same colour. [sad] Besides that, there are a lot of subtle variations of red and orange in here which will make it hard to separate each other on the map.

Apart from that, why are there two mauers in the game. [hmm]

My start is OK, not quite shining but certainly playable.

I would describe my start as adequate, depending on what's over the horizon & strategic resources.

Short answer, bodean was over here last night.

Long answer, I've got an army buddy that lives in Kentucky down visiting for the week and I'm on vacation. We decided we would play a game of Axis and Allies Europe, so I called bodean to see if he could swing it. He came over and I reminded him that he needed to play his turn. So he logs in on my computer and forgot to change the display name.

Must mean we are brothas from anotha motha.

He realises its a daily thing right?

He knows, hope he plays it.

Well, for the first turn you had to remind him as well... [rolleyes]

Im not able to connect to this game atm, but I can connect to the Arboria game just fine and I see Mauer player and Mauer server on Ham Sushi. Dont need a rollback or anything Im not doing squat but just wondering what was up.

anyone else having problems? I see a few of you haven't finished your turn with under 3 hours to go. I was able to log in, so I'm figuring that KC tooled around with his specs. Well, since he said as much anyways. If we're having problems though, I'll take it down until we fix it and roll back if need be. Just let me know.

Don't know, no problem here.