So I am always annoyed when I play on a Earth map and I can only fit 3 cities on England and only like two on Spain, especially considering how important these countries were all throughout history. So my simple solution make the tiles smaller obviously adding more by doing that and make it so they take up the same radius of 21 of the smaller tiles. Now to make it so you don't have all these tiny cities on your map, when it hits certain sizes you choose the tile adjacent to it in which to expand. With the limit of you can't expand the actual size of the city past the initial 9 tiles.
Adding Tiles
- Thread starter Colonel
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I love the idea of tiny tiles;
- Cities could expand into nearby tiles as they grow, leading to varied city shapes.
- ZOC/units taking up multiple tiles would need to be implemented to stop units zipping around alot.
- Roads could take up one tile; farms and mines multiple tiles; while rivers could increase in width as they go down stream allowing for river combat.
- Some buildings/wonders could be built outside cities on free land.
- Greater zooming would allow you to see cities in Civ3cityview detail.
- Cities could expand into nearby tiles as they grow, leading to varied city shapes.
- ZOC/units taking up multiple tiles would need to be implemented to stop units zipping around alot.
- Roads could take up one tile; farms and mines multiple tiles; while rivers could increase in width as they go down stream allowing for river combat.
- Some buildings/wonders could be built outside cities on free land.
- Greater zooming would allow you to see cities in Civ3cityview detail.
Yeah. Absolutely. The game makers should make Civ5 it so we could play 3x bigger maps with the same lag as Civ4.This would be really great.
I support this idea as long as I can sail from the Mediterranean Sea towards Strait of Gibraltar without border problems.
Conquer Iberian civs and you'll be fine.
Hail
Satan's minion
bet you can do better!
Not when you're the Chinese trying to sail into and discover the Mediterranean.
Redo the cultural borders for coastlines please.
Gamemaster77
PC > Mac
Maybe have an option where you can claim land by discovering it first. This would be great for historical scenarios.
Well, apart from having a software engineering degree, I ambet you can do better!
- a bit rusty (don't do it as a job)
- don't have the benefit of years' of trial-and-error and design-by-experiment experience with civ games
- slightly less budget
- Am well aware that I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed
What I achieve might work well in a small scale (hopefully), but that's not to say it will work well on a 120x120 map with 10 AI players.
Gamemaster77
PC > Mac
That's why they would have to introduce a whole new level of trading land, double claiming, and a lot more. I'm sure they could do it.
Hail
Satan's minion
i believe that 120x120 is a small map. why did you get a software engineer degree, if you are not working in that field?
- you do not have to compromise with the marketing department
- you have the benefit of reading forums and stealing ideas
- no deadlines
- the only way not to make mistakes, is to do nothing
Cultural vs. Political Borders, Colonel, 29/3/09
I think a discussion on that was in the linked thread, if were wanting to have a look.
Many, many people ultimately don't end up using their degrees. I guess in my case, I took the first job that I got offered - which was only psuedo-coding. With people changing careers a half-dozen times in their life, it's not that much of a biggy... besides if I spent all day programming for "the man" then whose to say I would enjoy doing it as a hobby? Ok... so yeah, I probably would... 
I just love the opportunity to try new things! (with civ)
I just love the opportunity to try new things! (with civ)
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5 tiles, actually; Culture can extend 2 tiles off the coast.
I think the best way to make high-res maps work is to just lay simple textures over the tiles to represent cities, farms, etc. I mean, if you look out of an airplane window when you're not going through clouds, everything basically looks flat on the surface. And since you play this game from a god's eye view, you might as well make it appear that way.
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