Initial placement of capitol tile

Much asked for, never implemented. Seems to be too complicated or not important enough for the devs.

To me, I see it as a feature now. Some randomness is ok. The puzzle that is the placement of improvements in any planet is enhanced by by the the capitol being a random pick. Life isn't fair, kiddo.

True, except fairness doesn't really apply here, IMO. I'll accept that it might be technologically impractical (although as a software developer, I am a bit dubious of this). Having the capitol be random is a fine "option", akin to map size and number of opponents. Having it a fixed "random" is simply an aggravation, since the likelihood of having it appear in a poor location is significantly more common than getting it in the "ideal" spot.

Additionally, the player could be offered several options.  None of them guaranteed to be ideal.

 

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Now, what about the poor AI?  Does offering the (hopefully human) player placement give it an unfair advantage?  The AIs will still get crappy spots.

 

 

That would seem to be easy coding for the AI, select the spot with the most adjacent tiles. I actually prefer mine to be by itself or with only one or two, as my preference is to build with other buildings being the center of  my layout. Capitol is always in my way.

The irony is that I also would prefer to place my capitol away from the rest of the tiles, at least until capitols become more useful again (I'd suggest capitols gain a +1 per age, so +3 total during age of ascension).

I would like to see this. I have to disagree about easy, but it is feasable just place it in the middle of the most tiles.

In general I don't want my capital in the tile with the most adjacencies.  There it blocks big-time hubs.  And you can't demolish a capital to make way.

I would like my capital in a tile with some adjacencies, or potential adjacencies - i.e. next to untiled land mass.  What tees me off is when it gets plopped on an island in the middle of an ocean with no possible adjacency until Biosphere.

 

A quick workaround:

For the Colony Capital (not the Civilization Capital), just remove <IsIndestructible> and <Unavailable> from ImprovementDefs.xml. When you colonize a planet, destroy the capital and rebuild it in a new spot.

Edit: Here's the modified ImprovementDefs file, unzip and put it in:
...My Games\GC3Crusade\Mods\AnyModName\Game

Add a preclusion for the civ capital

<Preclusions>
      <Improvement>CivilizationCapital</Improvement>
</Preclusions>

in the colony capital.

That works perfectly, thanks! Updated link above.

Mod is good, except I prefer to play multiplayer with a friend of mine...this mod would need to make it into the core files somehow (or figure out how to have MP use mods).