Right, basically I'm coming into this with the idea and naff all else...
I've DL'd the excellent MOD maps that are available of Earth with the true locations on them, however I have an idea of mine which I need some help exploring...
Basically I want to do two things concurrently but not exclusively connected:
1) An Earth Map which allows me to use true starts AND choose which Civs start - the Mods I have DL'd are pre-set with civs already. Basically I want to potentially have several Civs developing more or less out of the way in N America, Australia and S Africa, while Europe presents a more compact battlefield, and the more removed civs are a challenge for later in the game.
2) I want to dick around with the tech tree so that Naval exploration comes in just before gunpowder units, I suppose that means that I need different unit types to move on the tree... I guess I would also edit the map to place Ocean tiles on all Sea tiles NOT adjacent to Land - thereby forcing the issue of waiting for more advanced units.
The idea is that 2) leads onto 1) in the sense that if it is hard to reach the outlying civs and also hard for them to get to Europe, they will be more likely to develop extensive land-based empires and therefore be more advanced?
I've DL'd the excellent MOD maps that are available of Earth with the true locations on them, however I have an idea of mine which I need some help exploring...
Basically I want to do two things concurrently but not exclusively connected:
1) An Earth Map which allows me to use true starts AND choose which Civs start - the Mods I have DL'd are pre-set with civs already. Basically I want to potentially have several Civs developing more or less out of the way in N America, Australia and S Africa, while Europe presents a more compact battlefield, and the more removed civs are a challenge for later in the game.
2) I want to dick around with the tech tree so that Naval exploration comes in just before gunpowder units, I suppose that means that I need different unit types to move on the tree... I guess I would also edit the map to place Ocean tiles on all Sea tiles NOT adjacent to Land - thereby forcing the issue of waiting for more advanced units.
The idea is that 2) leads onto 1) in the sense that if it is hard to reach the outlying civs and also hard for them to get to Europe, they will be more likely to develop extensive land-based empires and therefore be more advanced?
