Scaled Starting Plots

This simple mod was designed for exactly one purpose: If you use fewer than the default number of players (and/or city states) it will force them to spread out more. This will effectively eliminate cases where you have clusters of players starting close to each other while others start isolated very far away. City states can still cluster up as they will fill in spaces between major civilization starting positions. So, if you want to play a game with a reduced number of civilizations and not still start right on top of your neighbor this mod will help. If you want better starting locations, more balanced starting locations, better or different resources around starting locations, maps with an "old world" without any civilizations or pretty much anything else this mod will likely not deliver what you are looking for. How it works: Basic math. We take the difference of the number of players at game start and the number of default players for the chosen map size and use that to change the minimum distance for the starting settlers to spawn. For example a large map designed for 10 players will move starts 5 tiles further away from each other if you only have 5 players when you create the game. Well, technically it doesn't move anything, it creates a buffer preventing another starting being selected within that defined range and that range changes if you change the number of players in your game. This is done dynamically to prevent, or significantly reduce, the chance of there not