[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Targa:
Are you perhaps playing the scenario, and it has commands that override the nostart indicated in the .map file?

No, it's not the scenario. I regularly play on the World map, being that it's my natural favorite, and every so often, a player would wind up starting on an isolated island province like New Zealand or Hawaii. For a non-seafaring nation, that's pretty much a mulligan right there. When it happens to the AI, you can more or less write that AI out of the game.

So to avoid this, I flagged all of the offending "really godawful" start provinces nostart in the map editor....but upon starting the game, I found that every so often, I'd spawn on one of those invalid locations anyway.