How random is colinization?

[mtdg]

How random is colinization?

map, resources, other 'raaces' placement etc

or is it like a scenario where certain things always happen at the same time / place on the same map.

[savagehenry]

If it's anything like the original, there will be a predesigned map that covers North and South America with resources distributed in some approximation of how they were actually discovered by the colonists, with an option to generate a random map (containing many of the same options that the comparable civ -- civ 1 IIRC -- had)