Best world map?

[Silver]

I'm looking for a world map to use for my new modern-day global scenario, and I was wondering what the consesus is as to the best world map out there. looking for 182x182 or 256x256, so what map should I use?

 

[Vostos]

Rhyes world map is very good it is 180x180 so it's not far off what you want. It should be in the maps forum, on the first page

 

[Grohan]

Yeah, Rhye's map is the best.

 

[Thorgrimm]

Not to toot my own horn, but my Earth map is around 256 x 256 and has more surface playing space than others of the same size. I will also place my map side by side with any other and bet mine is as good or better. Heck in my WOTW mod, i ran out of cities before i could even get to South America, so i had to remove cities. There is that much surface. The Japanese islands have more space than any other map the same size, and a heck of a lot more than smaller sizes.


Cheers Thorgrimm

 

[Kyriakos]

The only thing that matters (for me) in any civ map is if Greece is huge or not!

 

[Vostos]

Thorgrimm where is your world map?

 

[Goldflash]

Earth is a Lie. There is no Earth.

 

[Xen]

Not to toot my own horn, but my Earth map is around 256 x 256 and has more surface playing space than others of the same size. I will also place my map side by side with any other and bet mine is as good or better. Heck in my WOTW mod, i ran out of cities before i could even get to South America, so i had to remove cities. There is that much surface. The Japanese islands have more space than any other map the same size, and a heck of a lot more than smaller sizes.


Cheers Thorgrimm

well then give us a link please

 

[Thorgrimm]

Gents, here is the link to the thread it is in.

http://www.cdgroup.org/forums/tbs/civ3/viewtopic.php?t=5666

@varwnos, i am sure you will have far more room in the Greece on my map than others.

 

[Master Kodama]

Not to disparage Thorgrimm's map, I'm sure it's excellent and at one time I would agree that a bigger map with more surface space was better, but 256x256 just seems unmanageably and impractically large for most purposes. Personally, I would agree with others that Rhye's map is closer to the optimum size. For my own mod, I'm using Arne's world map, which is of a similar size but has Japan and Europe sized a bit larger than they really are to help with gameplay. I've cropped the North and South a to get rid of some "waste space" though, like Antarctica and the Arctic Circle. But hey, that's just me.

 

[rajwhitehall]

Not to disparage Thorgrimm's map, I'm sure it's excellent and at one time I would agree that a bigger map with more surface space was better, but 256x256 just seems unmanageably and impractically large for most purposes.....

I think to have a reasonable game at that size you need to modify the rules, increasing the number of optimum cities (hence reducing corruption) and increasing unit speeds and ranges.

 

[Snorken]

Kal El's 180x180 Earth map is by far the best world map!