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Caps Lock improves the rules for selecting starting positions. The game rates each potential starting plot point, such as proximity to other civilizations, nearby luxury resources, and access to fresh water. Standard rules use an all-or-nothing system that can place civilizations too close together or strand them in the arctic wasteland.

This mod improves the episode scoring system so that larger questions score lower, and multiple questions add up. For example, if a region is too close to another civilization, standard rules will consider every tile to be equally bad, but Caps Lock will give better scores to tiles that are further away.

caps Lock:

Choose a better starting area

Improve capital spacing

Preventing the onset of Arctic wasteland

compatible

There is (not) another map pack mod that provides its own starting point plot rules and extra functionality, which will override Caps Lock if you enable both.

Acknowledgments

Some people are working on fixing the starting position bug in the Fall 2017 update. Special thanks to UglyBoy for taking my early findings and creating the first fix. See the Starting Plot Adjustments collection for its mods and other related work.

Starting plot improvements

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Caps Lock

Starting plot improvements

Caps Lock improves the rules for selecting starting locations. The game rates each potential starting plot for factors like distance from other civilizations, nearby luxury resources, and access to fresh water. The standard rules use an all-or-nothing system that can place civilizations too close together or stranded in arctic wasteland.

The mod improves the plot scoring system so that bigger problems get a worse score, and multiple problems add up. For example, if a region is too close to another civilization, the standard rules consider every plot equally bad, but Caps Lock gives a better score to the plots that are farther away.

Caps Lock:

Chooses better starting plots

Improves capital spacing

Prevents arctic wasteland starts

Compatibility

The Yet (not) Another Maps Pack mod provides its own starting plot rules and extra features, which will override Caps Lock if you enable both.

Acknowledgements

A few people worked on fixing the starting position bugs in the Fall 2017 update. Special thanks to UglyBoy who took my early investigation results and created the first fix. See the Starting Plot Adjustments collection for his mod and other related work.

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