Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[Heretic_Cata]

Before Alexander:

After Alexander:

 

[Kyriakos]

^ No, mr Creedy, Bestmacedonia is an idea. And ideas are all over the place + Bulgaria.

 

[Domen]

Evidence of advanced technology surprised the archaeologists... <civ2losingscene>

Don't you know that Greece is an AI civ ???:

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/infocenter/

The details on respawning AI civs:

AI civs can only be respawned once.
For an AI civ to respawn, there must be an unclaimed, unoccupied tile on the same continent as the one where it was eliminated (by killing it's last settler or last city) and no other civs can have territory or units within a 5-tile radius of this tile. The tile must also allow cities to be built upon it (i.e., no mountains/water using default rules).
The respawned civ loses the following:
All embassies/spies
All units
- All colonies
The respawned civ gets the following:
1 city
3 defensive units
1 offensive unit
1 settler/start unit 1
1 worker/start unit 2
All bonus starting units based on difficulty level
Their gold is increased by starting_gold X 10 (i.e., 100 gold using default rules).
Everything else (culture, at war, techs, etc.) remains unchanged.

But Greece broke the rules because they already respawned at least twice!

 

[Kyriakos]

Don't you know that Greece is an AI civ ???:

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/infocenter/



But Greece broke the rules because they already respawned at least twice!

Poland also respawned. <cough>

 

[Domen]

Bestmacedonia is an idea.

There was simply an unclaimed, unoccupied tile over there, near Scupi...

Fortunately, they respawned with the same, 2nd / 1st century BC techs.

 

[warpus]

Never trust a map

 

[Borachio]

I did know that. Yes. Doesn't everyone?

Internet users map.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I don't really see Mercator's projection that often.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Never trust a map

"Except this one that we're showing you!"

The problem being, although Mercator is excellent for its original designed purpose, it's used for things it shouldn't be.

 

[Takhisis]

A) That pic lies, because the Earth's shape is not spherical but a geoid, i.e. earth-shaped, and
B) It's Partizan. &#1055;&#1072;&#1088;&#1090;&#1080;&#1079;&#1072;&#1085;. Seriously. Red Star (&#1062;&#1088;&#1074;&#1077;&#1085;&#1072; &#1047;&#1074;&#1077;&#1074;&#1076;&#1072 have a different emblem.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

the Earth's shape is not spherical but a geoid, i.e. earth-shaped

You don't say.

 

[Takhisis]

Given that most people here are barbarians (i.e., they don't speak Greek) sometimes they need to have things explained to them.

 

[Tee Kay]

I don't really see Mercator's projection that often.

Google Maps use Mercator.

And I think it is more common in the United States than the rest of the world.

 

[Kyriakos]

I did know that. Yes. Doesn't everyone?

Internet users map.

While this likely is far closer to actual size relation between countries, it also happens to look a lot worse than the other projection

 

[Borachio]

I think, apart from the horrendous colouring which I agree is bad, the reason it doesn't look "right" is because it isn't the familiar Mercator.

But there aren't any "good" projections of a 3D surface in 2D. There really can't be.

 

[Tee Kay]

Equirectangular is pretty rad

Though personally I'm a sucker for Van der Grinten, I guess it's an acquired taste.

 

[Borachio]

My preference is this:

 

[JohannaK]

I like equirectangular.

 

[trader/warrior]

I prefer the one Paradox uses. The entire continent of the Americas should be pushed further north. New York as far south as Madrid? Don't be silly.

 

[madviking]

or the one in ck2 where iceland is waaay closer to europe