Alternative Map 1000AD

[Pickledtezcat]

Here's a scenario I've been working on, My first for civ 4, though I used to make lots of stuff for civ 3 years ago on Civfanatics (can't remember my username or password though )

It's a modification of the 1000AD scenario bundled with the game, I've made a new world map, using an unusual projection method. I won't say any more as you may enjoy exploring a world where your traditional ideas of direction and orientation are completely switched around.

I've not done much playtesting on this one yet, but it seems to work OK. I used MapView 2.0 and The GIMP. Most cities are cut and pasted directly from the original scenario, but the map is all my own work. It's pretty huge (APROX 7000 plots), but the actual land area is cut down so if you're playing a European Civ you'd better get busy building colonies as the one or two cities you have at the start are not going to help you win the game.

I may post some other versions which can be played from the ancient era with 12 or 18 civs.

 

[The_J]

Screenshots ?

And welcome to the forums .

 

[Pickledtezcat]

Here's a screenshot of the Arabs starting position.
You may notice something a little twisted about the view.

And for those who don't like surprises, here's a full preview of the map:

Spoiler :

The map is a cube projection of the erath. The equator is a square, with the north pole at the center and the south pole in each corner, I've removed the south pole becuase it's not useful here.

 

[BenZL43]

Island of New Guinea should be parallel to other Malayan Archipelago and Australia should be under the Java, Lesser Sunda, Timor, New Guinea etc

 

[Pickledtezcat]

Island of New Guinea should be parallel to other Malayan Archipelago and Australia should be under the Java, Lesser Sunda, Timor, New Guinea etc

I used pic-2-map to convert a map I found on the internet. Every map projection has some distortion, and in this case the outside edges are wrapped to each other. New Zealand and some other Islands were on the top left edge (upside down), but I moved New Zealand to the top of Australia for sanity's sake. I didn't add the extra Islands because they were very small and I doubted I could get them to look right. Several of the Islands in South east Asia were merged when I scaled the map, but generally that area is less distorted than in some other projections.