[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by rdonj

By making a map with pre-set start locations, any player whose start location is specifically set is easily able to be found simply by reding the .map file, or by loading up a game with all players set as human. There's no way you can avoid that afaik.

Reading the map file? Remember, only the server will have the copy with the specstarts not the players. So they won't have advance knowledge of which individual nation is in each start except via the default placement mentioned.

Pyg, your right, a player could right-click around all the other starting locations till he sees a land province with a sea terrain icon, but it'd be less conspicuous than a single sea looking province in the midst of a completely land map.

If one of us can't do it or wants to do it, I've got you down as volunteering. I want to thank you anyway. It would mean everyone re-downloading the map however. Now lets hear from Agema, regarding whether he's keeping Fomoria or we remove it from the running. He can certainly keep it, since it's not a game breaker, just a minor nuisance. But I don't know enough about any possible economic side effects of a neigboring sea province to tell him to do one thing or the other.

I just did some of my own quick tests and yep, Formoria won't hold a specstart, but they will start fine randomly on land provinces without any sea neighbors. Weird.