Hello to all, I definitively love this game and I play it alot, but not online,
This because it looks to me that your (random) starting position is deeply affecting your chance of winning an online match.
The issue is not an unfair access to resources or villages, but mostly the fact that very often some players start the game very close to each other while others are left alone: this clearly creates an not balanced start, because some players will be forced to start competing or fighting since turn 3 or 4 while other are free to deploy their civilization as they need until turn 12 or 14.
So in short what I'm really missing is an option to activate, in all maps, a "fair" starting position --> with all the players as far as possibile from each other while still keeping a fair access to villages.
Thank you,