Nighthawk419
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Hello! So this isn't a story or tale in the traditional sense, I clearly fail at those as seen by my Persia thread with generated no interest. However I do have a fun experiment I will be playing that I thought I would track on this thread, and if people decide they want to see it out, then great.
I recently started learning the ease of using world builder for a separate project I was helping a friend with, and thought to myself that it would be cool if I could use world builder to edit the world and then run DoC in a different, alternate world and just... see what happens! So I decided on an alternative reality where humanity and civilization developed just as it does now, except it all started during an ice age!
I started at 3000BC as China, and on my first turn, went into world builder and did some massive editing. As you can imagine, the north and south poles are much, much larger and stretch into what is normally inhabitable land. So the map is a little... squeezed. On the other hand, the previously uninhabitable places like the Amazon, Sahara, Siberia... those are now lush places to live!
My general rule was that desert becomes plains, plains become grassland, marshes become jungles and jungles become forests, and the poles are much larger and tundra stretches farther south. But I also used a little artistic creativity to make the map look what I would consider "realistic" for what the earth could have looked like during an ice age.
I will check in with world builder on a regular basis to see how civilization is developing throughout the world. I'll be playing as China for now, and then switching to a new civ at some point later in the game. I have no intention of winning, i'll be half-heartedly going for UHV's and generally making sure I stay stable and alive, most importantly, and maybe ultimately play for a space race victory. But the biggest point of this exercise is just to see what happens when humanity develops during an ice age!
Don't expect consistent updates on any sort of schedule. I'll simply be updating this as I see fit and as time permits.
Some civs are going to do much better than normal, and some much worse. Screenshots for a preview below!
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I recently started learning the ease of using world builder for a separate project I was helping a friend with, and thought to myself that it would be cool if I could use world builder to edit the world and then run DoC in a different, alternate world and just... see what happens! So I decided on an alternative reality where humanity and civilization developed just as it does now, except it all started during an ice age!
I started at 3000BC as China, and on my first turn, went into world builder and did some massive editing. As you can imagine, the north and south poles are much, much larger and stretch into what is normally inhabitable land. So the map is a little... squeezed. On the other hand, the previously uninhabitable places like the Amazon, Sahara, Siberia... those are now lush places to live!
My general rule was that desert becomes plains, plains become grassland, marshes become jungles and jungles become forests, and the poles are much larger and tundra stretches farther south. But I also used a little artistic creativity to make the map look what I would consider "realistic" for what the earth could have looked like during an ice age.
I will check in with world builder on a regular basis to see how civilization is developing throughout the world. I'll be playing as China for now, and then switching to a new civ at some point later in the game. I have no intention of winning, i'll be half-heartedly going for UHV's and generally making sure I stay stable and alive, most importantly, and maybe ultimately play for a space race victory. But the biggest point of this exercise is just to see what happens when humanity develops during an ice age!
Don't expect consistent updates on any sort of schedule. I'll simply be updating this as I see fit and as time permits.
Some civs are going to do much better than normal, and some much worse. Screenshots for a preview below!
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