Circumnavigating without ships!

[atreas]

I don't think that I have an excellent understanding of the English language (although I think I can handle it quite well), but I was thinking that "navigation" is a different action than "map making". At least, until yesterday!

What happened to me was the following: being in the middle of a pangea map with no access to sea at all (my navy was constantly in 0 units, and I think that this would continue for very long time), I was constantly attacked by Mao (from the far West of the map) and Isabella and/or Tokugaua (from the East side of the map). I had quite a good army (better than theirs, at least for defensive purposes) so these attacks in fact were all ending after 15-20 turns in some deal of the sort "take all our money and our maps and please spare us".

After one such glorious attack I saw the wonderful message "You are the first to circumnavigate the globe"! So, I would like to see either the message to be changed (maybe, "mapped the whole world") or to be (as in real life) an action that a ship unit must undertake.

 

[Bushface]

It's the "international date line" effect, that occurs when something moves off one side of the minimap on to a tile on the other side. In play, you see the tiles as directly connected and can, naturally, move from one to the other, but to the program the move is from row 0 to row (0-1) (if you're moving leftward) and this -1 is translated to +99, assuming that the map has 100 columns numbered 0 to 99. This also accounts for some of the "Funny Screenshots" in the thread of that name, such as a catapult-thrown rock apparently circumnavigating the globe to reach its target. Usually this "date line" is in mid-ocean (in which case no doubt the same phenomenon could occur in naval warfare) but sometimes the land area is spread across the line.
Anyway, for being the first to circumnavigate your ships will be given an extra movement point, though I doubt that this will greatly benefit you. Circumnavigation is achieved by getting a unit if yours to the same column of tiles from both east and west; it does not have to be the same unit both ways, and which column is so reached is irrelevant. In the real world this means ship movement, because we have continents separated by oceans, but on a pangaea world it is possible by land, purely dependent on just how the landmass is arranged.