Americas AD 1475

[stfoskey12]

I am planning on creating a scenario, that along with my Expanded Earth 1000AD and Earth 2012AD scenarios will make up a large mod. It will take place starting in 1475 AD and continue up to the present. Version alpha 3.0.0 is out for BtS 3.19! I will get version beta 1.0 out once I finish the map and civs and such. I mostly know how to do the first parts, but suggestions and history lessons are helpful.

Civs included:
England
France
Netherlands
Spain
Portugal
Germany
Viking
Aztec
Inca
Maya
Native America

Map size: Huge
Game speed: Marathon

Images:

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Images current as of version alpha 2.5.0

Version History:

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Version 3.0.0 alpha (October 20, 2012):
-Changed start year
Version 2.5.1 alpha (October 20, 2012):
-Minor map fixes
-Added barbarian cities
Version 2.5.0 alpha Improvements (October 18, 2012):
-Added barbarians
Version 2.4.0 alpha Improvements (October 11, 2012):
-Added units
Version 2.3.0 alpha Improvements (October 11, 2012):
-Added city improvements
-Added religion
Version 2.2.0 alpha Improvements (October 5, 2012):
-Added improvements
-Added some culture
Version 2.1.0 alpha Improvements (October 4, 2012):
-Added techs
Version 2.0.0 alpha Improvements (September 26, 2012):
-Added cities
Version 1.8.0 alpha Improvements (September 13, 2012):
-Removed roads
Version 1.7.1 alpha Improvements (September 6, 2012):
-Added rivers to Europe and Africa
-Fixed some rivers
Version 1.7.0 alpha Improvements (September 5, 2012):
-Added rivers to Americas
Version 1.6.0 alpha Improvements (August 30, 2012):
-Added resources
Version 1.5.0 alpha Improvements (August 26, 2012):
-Add South America
-Added islands in Atlantic
-Moved Ireland
Version 1.4.1 alpha alpha Improvements (August 24, 2012):
-Added Mexico
-Added Central America
-Added Carribean
-Added a few hills and forests
Version 1.4.0 alpha Improvements (August 24, 2012):
-Add Northern North America
Version 1.3.1 alpha Improvements (August 24, 2012):
-Finished Africa
-Added a few forests
Version 1.3.0 alpha Improvements (August 23, 2012):
-Added Northern Africa
Version 1.2.2 alpha Improvements (August 23, 2012):
-Added Greenland
Version 1.2.1 alpha Improvements (August 23, 2012):
-Expanded Europe
Version 1.2.0 alpha Improvements (August 22, 2012):
-Added Europe
Version 1.1.0 alpha Improvements (August 22, 2012):
-No world wrap
-Huge map
-Added Germany
-Added Scandanavia
Version 1.0.0 alpha Improvements over random map (August 22, 2012):
-9 civs on only island in large map
-England
-France
-Netherlands
-Spain
-Portugal
-Aztec
-Inca
-Maya
-Native America

Future Updates:

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Version 3.1 alpha (late October 2012):
-Change civics
Version 3.2 alpha (late October 2012):
-Fix fog of war
Version 1.0 beta and beyond (November 2012):
-Add Mali
-Add Zululand
-Add Congo (as Egyptians)
-Add Iroquois (as Khmer (for lack of a better civ))
-Add Russians
-Change difficulty levels for different civs
-Change starting era
-Work out diplomacy
-Add to downloads database
Distant Future
-Fix resources

 

[stfoskey12]

I'm up to alpha 1.2, but since it is still in alpha stages, there is very little out yet.

 

[stfoskey12]

By the way, any help with resource placement is welcome.

 

[wolfman1234]

Its a good idea and period, but why dont you make this scenario with any of the good mods that have plenty of units buildings and leaders of the period? C2C, History rewritten, Realism Invictus...

That would be a great enhancment.

 

[HardRocker]

Its a good idea and period, but why dont you make this scenario with any of the good mods that have plenty of units buildings and leaders of the period? C2C, History rewritten, Realism Invictus...

That would be a great enhancment.

Not everyone want to download a mod to play a nice scenario, and I for one don't.

This seems like a great idea. I will be watching this closely.

 

[stfoskey12]

Its a good idea and period, but why dont you make this scenario with any of the good mods that have plenty of units buildings and leaders of the period? C2C, History rewritten, Realism Invictus...

That would be a great enhancment.

I will consider it, but I need to finish the map first.

 

[stfoskey12]

Here are some images of what I have done so far:

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[The_J]

Looks good (besides Scotland, which seems to be a bit distorted).

 

[HardRocker]

Looks good (besides Scotland, which seems to be a bit distorted).

It does look very good, but Scotland needs to be reformed me thinks. There shouldn't be a landbridge to Ireland.

 

[stfoskey12]

I fixed the landbridge problem, as well as added South America.

 

[stfoskey12]

I feel like I just bindly placed most resources, do you have any idea where they should actually go?

 

[HardRocker]

I feel like I just bindly placed most resources, do you have any idea where they should actually go?

Screenshots?

I can tell you what countries should have what nearby, but without seeing where you put things I can't give much advice.
France needs horses, iron, and wheat.
Spain needs horses, silver, and sheep.
Germany needs coal, aluminum, and copper.
etc. etc.

And these are just my opinions...

But I can't do much without screenshots

 

[stfoskey12]

Well I am currently on vacation for Labor Day weekend, but probably by Tuesday I can get something out. However, I just started high school recently, so I don't know how much homework I'll have.

 

[Luthor_Saxburg]

Is this for BtS V3.19? I think it would be usefull to mention that in post #1...

 

[stfoskey12]

Yes, but it may work with earlier versions.

 

[stfoskey12]

Here are the screenshots.

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[stfoskey12]

In case you were confused, the screenshots have the resources that I need help locating.

 

[stfoskey12]

At some point I would still like resource help with the above screenshots.

 

[satrapper]

why not check out resouce allocation from another map as a starting point? RFC map or something.

(edit) from an aesthetic point of view, perhaps your rivers need a bit of work? i always thought that the (forgive me as i get technical here ) lake-like, blue blob on the end of a river symbolized the river's mouth/point of entry to sea?

 

[stfoskey12]

Your right about the blue lake-like thing, I already fixed that but didn't update the screenshots. I may have to look at another map, but editing the map while looking at screenshots seems difficult. But I guess it's worth a try.