Okay, so maybe this has been thrown out, I don't know. How about making it so that a ship, or a man can travel halfway across the map at the poles? This would give a bit more of a globe feeling and really more realistic. There would need to be a requisite technology though. Huge ships travel through the Arctic Circle designed to plow through ice. Steam power or something would enable that. The ice caps on civ 1 always frustrated me because men could walk along it but not through it. I really don't think it'd be hard to code, just instantly travel halfway across the top of the map.
What say you?
What say you?