Hi isnorden, IIRC you cannot have avoids and prefers operate at the same time for civ starts. This is from the civilizations xml file:
"If a Civ has entries in any of the four following tables, any entries in later tables will end up being ignored."

@nickewas: Starting-location preferences aren't guaranteed to work 100% of the time; sometimes the game can't find a suitable spot on the map. (I wrote the rules so that Sweden prefers forest or tundra tiles as an opening location, but tries to avoid deserts or jungles; you may have gotten a random map where those rules conflicted.)

IT DOESN´T WORK!

HELP ME!