This is my first effort at mapmaking - screenshot to follow. Its for a mod I hope to pull together one day focusing on the oft-neglectic corner of the world that I live in. The map focuses on the South West Pacific and contains Australia, New Zealand, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and Fiji.
I've attempted to produce as much detail as possible with gameplay in mind, thus making some of the middle sized islands (NZ, Tasmania) a little larger (2-3 squares) than normal. I've made much of Australia's desert into plains instead, for a little more settling space.
This is a clean map. I have not placed resources as some essential civ resources (ie horses) don't naturally occur - I wasn'[t sure what to put in and leave out. Let the random seed do its thing.
I've attempted to produce as much detail as possible with gameplay in mind, thus making some of the middle sized islands (NZ, Tasmania) a little larger (2-3 squares) than normal. I've made much of Australia's desert into plains instead, for a little more settling space.
This is a clean map. I have not placed resources as some essential civ resources (ie horses) don't naturally occur - I wasn'[t sure what to put in and leave out. Let the random seed do its thing.