Spherical gameplay ideas

Hey all! I have been working on some spherical gameplay ideas. I didn't have anywhere to post them, so I posted what I was working on to the freeciv wiki. http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Sphere. I have an idea that allows for 'square' tiles on a spherical map. I thought you guys might have some useful input. I would really like to see this sort of thing become a reality one day. (and honestly, I think spherical maps should have been a standard option since at least 1997...)

Nice work.

Oh I so hope this gets in for Civ6. Perhaps Planetary Annihilation, another strategy game being developed which uses spherical maps, will inspire Firaxis to go this route (read: force Firaxis to keep up with competition).

The spherical map would indeed be something nice to have, but if they have to sacrifice interface or navigability for it I'd sooner have them leave it out.