Depends, after LiPing decided to move I went back and looked at the starts properly, as I didn't have CIV access at all during the making of the map, and the mapview tool I was using displayed things in a funky manner.
Certain teams did actually have good moves to make. India, Rome, Pacal, Korea (2 wheats, massive cottage site, but not on a river) all had good reasons to move (assuming they moved scouts in the right direction for Greece). The rest didn't, or couldn't be sure. Now, I like metagaming and all, it gives an alternate view on proceedings, but I'm still going to look at a 2 food start and count my blessings, even if I do have to research Fishing. Moving is not certain to give me a strong enough start to overpower those that stayed where they were.
Some teams actually had damned good reasons to not move, ie those that were surrounded by hills/forests got screwed more than those with flatlands ie India. That was "unbalanced", and if I was making the map without any imput I probably would have made the starts identical, but is it in any way wrong that the starts were unbalanced in this matter? I want to claim no, but I think waiting to see the game unfold will prove that claim.
Certain teams did actually have good moves to make. India, Rome, Pacal, Korea (2 wheats, massive cottage site, but not on a river) all had good reasons to move (assuming they moved scouts in the right direction for Greece). The rest didn't, or couldn't be sure. Now, I like metagaming and all, it gives an alternate view on proceedings, but I'm still going to look at a 2 food start and count my blessings, even if I do have to research Fishing. Moving is not certain to give me a strong enough start to overpower those that stayed where they were.
Some teams actually had damned good reasons to not move, ie those that were surrounded by hills/forests got screwed more than those with flatlands ie India. That was "unbalanced", and if I was making the map without any imput I probably would have made the starts identical, but is it in any way wrong that the starts were unbalanced in this matter? I want to claim no, but I think waiting to see the game unfold will prove that claim.