Civ Game Maps

[michaelk156]

Hi,

I've just started out playing Civ a few months ago after discovering it out of curiousity and thus I have only completed three games so far, none of which I have won.

Nonetheless I am quite proud of how I've managed to urbanise Africa... I believe the Antioch pictured here is my first 16 size city! This is also the first game where I've built an extensive railroading system and developed flight.

 

[Whelkman]

It's strategically pointless, but, for fun, you might want to take Palmyra to level 42.

 

[michaelk156]

I'm so new to civ I dunno how I'd even go about doing that... how do you know it could get that large just by looking?

 

[Diviner]

On the earth map there are only three or four spots that could support a 42 size city which is the maximum you could achieve. On random maps you could rarely create even that big city. One such spot is around the Missisipi, the second is around the Amazonas and Palmyra is near the third one

It would require the other cities give all their territory to Palmyra and you need railroads of course.

 

[michaelk156]

Interesting! It seems that everyone has this game pretty much figured out. To be honest though I'm just happy to get them past size 10... just so long as they're not captured! I hate it when that happens.

Well I think I'll start a new game now, hopefully I'll top my previous performances with a bit of luck.

 

[Diviner]

One time we were actually beginners too. Visit the good memories thread to read some interesting stuff

To grow more rapidly use more settlers to railroad everything in the city radius. We love the president day is also a great help - in fact its a necessity for such high cities.

 

[Diviner]

I played a chieftain game and have a city grown to size 41. It would have grown to size 42, because it had one wheat surplus. But I've won earlier via spaceship. It was also a One-City-Challenge.

 

[ianwelch]

So 42 is the max limit for any city?

 

[Whelkman]

46, theoretically. You'd need 4 oasis tiles to accomplish that.

 

[michaelk156]

The technical stuff is intriguing but I think I prefer to play civ for the imaginative element more than anything else. It is fun to think about the idea of a Roman colony in Mozambique named Syracuse existing in the era of steamships, whilst a large Aztec civilisation develops near-future tech in the new world that the old world Romans steal and adapt to their own empire, as happened in a previous game I played.

That big Washington looks cool as. A lone supercity in a sea of wilderness, you could write a novel about that one.

 

[Zenek]

Sory for my english. I played civilization for many months many years ago, and there is one thing, why this game is not ideal. Map is to small. Know you any mode to make map bigger ?

 

[jpciv]

Download TerraForm and you can make your own maps.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=126921

The world is 80 squares wide by 50 squares high, but you can't really use the first or last two rows or columns.

So the practical limit is about 76 x 46. That's a lot of space to work with if you make one huge continent. Give it a try!