[Zeldor]

Ballbarian:

I am 100% sure that #specstart simply does not work with LA Marignon and/or LA Atlantis present in the game. It may be playable with at least one coastal province, but it is not if there are none.

We had it in Preponderance - if you want to place LA Atlantis/Marignon on the map with #specstart with no coastal starting locations, you MUST edit the map, by adding a new water province and link it to their capital. Otherwise you won't be able to play the game. It will mess everything up and make 1 or 2 nations disappear [mari/arco will randomly pick starting location, resulting in other nations getting invalid #specstart, thus disappearing from the game after 1 turn]. It happens even if you use just ONE #specstart command in the map file, even if there are like 20 nations. It's enough to break the whole game.