Shattered Supervolcano

1. Easy

The starting location is excellent for its extensive resources and plentiful options for expanding to different places. Still, its starting location is not the greatest due to the crowding of resources around it. The port is excellent, but it's only a temporary spot; you'll need to go to a different location to set up a proper Port location for all your ships.

2. Medium

The current location is a decent amount of space to work with, but not for a large Factory setup. You will have to move to a different location to get going, but it's an excellent area to collect your resources and organize everything. It has a decent Port point for your ships, but if you need more, there's always more coastline further down to take advantage of.

3. Hard

This starting location has a good amount of space to work with. You don't really need to expand too much anywhere else, but the lack of resources will hurt. There is an opportunity to develop, but you must dump a ton of Rock to get across the sandbar to the island.

4. Insane

This starting location is hazardous, and the lack of resources is a significant risk. You will have to hunt down more resources as soon as possible immediately, but there is plenty of space to work with to set up a proper factory, and there is no real need to set up a secondary location for buildings. The lack of plentiful oil and limited water will also be problems.