Map sizes don't seem to matter.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2582674425

I mean seriously look at this! The moment I first set my city down I was destined for war with yellow, and when I expanded northward I run into red! This is on a huge map with 3 continents, but I always end up right next to the A.Is.

This is a huge map, and I run into the A.I in the first 10 turns. Why even have large maps if the worlds feel so small? This also happens on large pangea.

[Anyd]

The ratio of number of territories / number of AI is roughly the same for all map size. Actually a bit higher on large and huge map. If you prefer to have more territories available to you use the huge map with 8 AI instead of 10.

[The Former]

Isn't there a game setting for start clustering? Maybe it's not working correctly? It's not always this way though, because right now I'm on a Large map with 8 players, set randomly to 2-4 continents, and things have been spread out for me for a long while. (Pace is Long for the record.)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2583927650

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd:

Isn't there a game setting for start clustering? Maybe it's not working correctly? It's not always this way though, because right now I'm on a Large map with 8 players, set randomly to 2-4 continents, and things have been spread out for me for a long while. (Pace is Long for the record.)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2583927650

I never seen that setting in the world creation. WHere is it? The only option I know like that is continent spread.

[Astasia]

Turn off new world and set it to one continent per player and in my experience each player starts on their own continent.

[Kotli]

Empires will be spread out across each continent you got in world options minus the new world. So assuming new world is turn off.
3 continents and 3 empires = 1 empire per continent.
I believe if you got it set to regular continents you will get 2 empires per continent if you set it to 6 empires and 3 continents.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

I don't think everyone really understands my main complaint here. I am upset that they are so close to me at the start, and not that they're on the same continent.

[The Former]

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

Originally posted by Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd:

Isn't there a game setting for start clustering? Maybe it's not working correctly? It's not always this way though, because right now I'm on a Large map with 8 players, set randomly to 2-4 continents, and things have been spread out for me for a long while. (Pace is Long for the record.)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2583927650

I never seen that setting in the world creation. WHere is it? The only option I know like that is continent spread.

I could be thinking of Age of Wonders: Planetfall. I know one of the 4X's I played recently had it, but I can't remember which for sure.

[Townsendvol]

I have had a game where they were pretty close to me on the same continent and my 2nd game I had the whole continent by myself.

Both were huge maps on endless with 5 AI players. So it appears to be random as it should be

Just thought I would share my two starts.

[Moyocoya]

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

I don't think everyone really understands my main complaint here. I am upset that they are so close to me at the start, and not that they're on the same continent.

I did not noticed the same problem. I started two games for the moment : in both one civilzation was close, two were far.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by Moyocoya:

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

I don't think everyone really understands my main complaint here. I am upset that they are so close to me at the start, and not that they're on the same continent.

I did not noticed the same problem. I started two games for the moment : in both one civilzation was close, two were far.

I get that man, I do. I know not all our experiences are the same, but I swear to god that 70% of my games I got 3 A.I hugging my borders.

[Moyocoya]

Well, probably you're right. I just tried to help and, by the way did not played enough games to have an opinion about tuning in this respect.

[Seedy]

I started a game with 3-5 continents, 4 AI. Ran into my first AI about turn 15. :(
Seems like he is the only one on my continent... other than the ravening hoards of independents that settle every empty region as soon as I start dropping outposts... then the AI begins trying to take them over before they even have a city.
I would love to be able to get rid of the indep cities, but I haven't figured out how. I can assimilate them, or attack them, both ways they end up pushing me over city cap with bad cities I don't want. But I want my neighbor to have them less. :(

[orthostatic]

Map size matters if you want to get 18 expansionist stars. Normal pangaea was two districts short; ugh.

[AnimeVsReligion]

Huge maps actually can lead to snowballing in higher difficulties as you might be locked and some AI just takes all the territory. I prefer to play on the standard one.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by Broccloli:

Huge maps actually can lead to snowballing in higher difficulties as you might be locked and some AI just takes all the territory. I prefer to play on the standard one.

I like to have a large amount of space for both me and the A.I to develop. It's not fun if only one of us gets strong.