[thejeff]

I think it depends on where you tell Vista to install it. If you take the defaults, it does the weird thing.

I agree it's time to get the game going. I'm a little uncomfortable starting as the only water nation in that large an ocean. What do you think of changing the water start location to one of the smaller lakes in the lower right of the map? And maybe breaking the connection between them? That way I'll be forced to start fighting land nations early.

Of course, if everyone's okay with the current setup, I'm fine with it. 80+ water provinces with no real opposition? I'll just have no excuse when I get slaughtered.

I'll put my pretender in tonight. I was waiting to see if we'd get another water nation.