garlic pudding
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There it is! A new Earth map on which to play your favorite Civ game.
This Earth map is inspired from Ronyboss' Standard Earth map for Quot Capita. It mainly features re-scaled continents and rougher terrain that should give more versatility to AI factions, especially those that start in Europe. The map has not been fully tested yet so any comments on how to improve it will be appreciated.
Mongols starting location is set, just like in the original game, around where Samarkand is located. I have been thinking of placing the Mongols closer to Mongolia but do no think of doing this before having first modified their capital city to be Karakorum. This will require more help from other users as city names are hard coded in Civ.exe.
I will also be working with the JCivED tool to regroup the many islands on the map with larger continents. This would mainly affect how wonders work in the game. This way, building the Hoover Dam in America or continental Europe could enable a city like Havana or London to also have a free hydro dam.
Usage
1. Make a backup of MAP.PIC from your Civ1 installation (or simply rename that file). While you're on it, you might want to make a backup of CIV.EXE as well.
2. Put the new map file MAP.PIC from the attached .rar archive into your Civ1 installation directory.
3. Put the program "Starting_locations.exe" from the attached .rar archive into your Civ1 installation directory and run it once. It will edit the standard starting positions in CIV.EXE to match the Europe map instead of the standard Earth map.
4. Run Civ 1, and select "Earth" at the main menu.
Note:
If you run "starting_locations.exe" again, it will revert the change of starting positions, so you can use this program to quickly switch between Earth starting positions and Europe starting positions.
Credits:
Many thanks go to Gowron, kirkham7 and darkpanda which have given me all necessary information on how to complete this project.