Thank you for all those who downloaded and played the map.
Version 3 of the map pack is now released.
Fixes Jungle on Plains
Adds Cocoa and Bison to the map
Adds a random version, which works outside the mod menu.
As you know, all maps of Europe, Asia and the World have the same fundamental issues. There is a lot of empty unused space or too much room for civilizations to expand.
Preciseley the following:
1. Siberia is too big, and always gives Russia an unfair advantage
2. The deserts and boreal areas in Asia are too vast and empty.
3. A scaled down map gives not enough room for European civilizations and contradicts with 1 and 2.
All this is caused by looking at the earth from a perfect horizontal angle. To fix it, we simply have to tilt the map to the right. We will span our map from England to India, leaving out Siberia, Kazakhstan and Tibet. While still enabling Suez canal and Bosporus as shippable waterways. Trade routes from England to India? no Problem!
I hope I captured your attention. Because the title says it all, Avalon Hill has already created this map for its boardgame in the 80's. And I am currently working on the Civ5 version of it!
Because of the tilted angle it was completely redrawn from sketch.
Here are the final Civ 5 maps:
Dawn of History 120x72 (BNW)
Dawn of History Small 66x40 (BNW)
Attached is the map file.
Please make sure you open it via the mod menu and load the scenario, if you want to use the preset cities and resources.
Version 3 of the map pack is now released.
Fixes Jungle on Plains
Adds Cocoa and Bison to the map
Adds a random version, which works outside the mod menu.
As you know, all maps of Europe, Asia and the World have the same fundamental issues. There is a lot of empty unused space or too much room for civilizations to expand.
Preciseley the following:
1. Siberia is too big, and always gives Russia an unfair advantage
2. The deserts and boreal areas in Asia are too vast and empty.
3. A scaled down map gives not enough room for European civilizations and contradicts with 1 and 2.
All this is caused by looking at the earth from a perfect horizontal angle. To fix it, we simply have to tilt the map to the right. We will span our map from England to India, leaving out Siberia, Kazakhstan and Tibet. While still enabling Suez canal and Bosporus as shippable waterways. Trade routes from England to India? no Problem!
I hope I captured your attention. Because the title says it all, Avalon Hill has already created this map for its boardgame in the 80's. And I am currently working on the Civ5 version of it!
Because of the tilted angle it was completely redrawn from sketch.
Here are the final Civ 5 maps:
Dawn of History 120x72 (BNW)
Spoiler :
Dawn of History Small 66x40 (BNW)
Spoiler :
Attached is the map file.
Please make sure you open it via the mod menu and load the scenario, if you want to use the preset cities and resources.
The concept is similar to my world map, just having a smaller rw area (with more detailed terrain to compensate). I could've made my map a bit larger (it's 59 x 98), but I wanted to avoid the late-game slowdown that usually strikes on Civ V games (and, to be fair, with all the other Civ games except Civ II nowadays). On my map I also reduced the size of the oceans drastically, since imo they are more of a detriment to good game-play than an addition (especially with the state of the naval battle AI in Civ V, even after all the patches). On yours of course there's little to do in this regard, since the geography is pretty much 'fixed' by the fact that 'sailability' around Arabia must be maintained at all costs.
Anyway I've rambled on enough; good luck with the map, and here are a few practical tips I learned while making mine:
). On many non-world maps there are depressingly few Natural Wonders due to people's passion for 100 % realism.
(I'd play on my own map but, as I'm sure you know, you can't really play on any map you made yourself since all you ever see are flaws to be corrected. Maybe you can play on my map and I can play on yours? 
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) and did some crude modding as well. I've been working on it for three months, but it's still WIP and the xml is quite sloppy (this is my first try ever modding CIV). so if I ever get it near finished, I'll post it in a new thread.
