[MAP] Dieter's New World

I created this map as I wasn't overally impressed with the Western Hemisphere maps provided with the game... It's larger allowing for more colonies to be founded before encroaching on other european powers. It covers North America, the Caribbean and northern South America. Each leader starts with a colony, soldier and caravel. Colonies are in their oldest real location; Spain - Santo Domingo, France - Quebec, England - St. John's and Dutch - New Amsterdam. Natives are situated roughly in there original lands, as are the majority of resources.

Download:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=11110

I have only played it once, so feel free to give me any ideas or suggestions for improvements. Also, one problem that I'm tryin to fix/understand... Ships purchased in Europe wont leave port there; help fixing this would be appreciated.

Note (NOV 3): I edited the file so that there is no access to "europe" from the pacific; I hope this is fine, I just kept getting annoyed when the REF sent 90% of the troops to the pacific side

Screen shots to come...

Here are a few screenshots; enjoy

Looks cool! You should consider adding a larger portion of south america and make it compatible with Dale's AOD
And why not Jamestown as the english starting colony?

I agree with Jamestown. I also ran into the can't leave Europe with ships bug along with some others when I pre-placed colonies.

I chose St. John's as it's founding predates the founding of Jamestown by some 65 years... I've played as the English, it works well as a colony along with a second one on the island. If you choose move your next colonies down there; Halifax area is also a good progression south.

If I get a good response to change it I will, but for now it stays.

Dav, did you ever find a solution to the ship bug?

Try pre-placing a ship, say just off one of their colonies, for each civ and see if that fixes it.

is there any way I can use this map with other mods? I really want to use the map with or without the start positions for colonies, but with the bandaid mod or something else.



I also had some additional bugs: -
Promotions didn't seem to work at all.

I did manage to get ships to come from europe though. I deleted all the units, and saved it in world builder then I started as the dutch.
It gave me a ship in the ocean west of mexico. Entered world builder and placed access to europe there. Then added enough gold to buy me a new ship.
It would arrive.

The only problem is the other races start locations are inland. so their ships are rather stuck.

This map is excellent. Finally a map that's not HUGE. Can we get somebody to fix the problems so that it's playable and functioning?