Anyone else worried about the map expansion feature?

[TheSpaceCowboy]

100% but this view of a flat earth is based on the assumption that also Europeans didn't know the Americas was there, and had also the further restriction of it being glued to Christians (). No one is expecting to read on history texts that the 4th of July a fleet of three caravels reached Florida and it wasn't Columbus fleet... or the the Scots had maps of the Northern America coasts since some 1200...

The Christian world was a dark, bleak age. They didn't get the privilege of freedom of the Scots or the Vikings... or Rome to that extent, before Christianity utterly destroyed its foundations.

Middle East doesn't include China and Japan does it? Who knows for how much time they did actively trade with Americas, before the famous Zhang Ye expedition...

Regardless the Flat Earth vision was so entrenched in believers minds, that their fear of falling down once reached the end of the world was real, very real... this played a role somehow, sailors were refusing to go much further of the Canary islands... the Canary stream brings ships directly to the Americas, and as you have pointed out, some may have reached its coast, but few made the round trip home back safely...

To quote our new president/elect: “I don’t know what he just paid and I don’t think he knows what he said either.”

The Christian world was neither dark nor bleak

 

[Evolena]

Alternatively, the distant lands may be divided in a way where part of it is also separated by ocean tiles from the civs in the distant land, so part would always be unreachable for everyone. But this is just an idea I have, no evidence for it so far.

They said that there is several map scripts which result in several forms of Distant Land. I can totally see one corresponding to the "New World" map option of Humankind, where one land mass has no civs on it.

 

[chaosprophet]

They said that there is several map scripts which result in several forms of Distant Land. I can totally see one corresponding to the "New World" map option of Humankind, where one land mass has no civs on it.

Yeah, there may be lots of different options there, just that wouldn't surprise me that all maps would be divided in three (like 1/2 homeland, 1/4 distant land with ai players1/4 distant land without AI players), all divided by ocean in order to make sure there is always the exploration experience of being able to find completely fresh land on the age. With the different forms of distant land just means something like: Continent = 2 continent one with ai and one without, archipelago = 2 groups of islands, one with ai and one without, etc.

But then maybe like Krikkit1 said, it is just the result of the settlement cap + total land and players on that part of the map making so it naturally won't be fully covered anyway, which is a more elegant solution.