Civilization on a Globe?

[historix69]

The discussion about Civ on a globe is not new and comes back every year ... especially since Civ5/Civ6 use Hex tiles ...

Today I saw on STEAM the videos/pictures of Early Access to "Imagine Earth" (http://store.steampowered.com/app/280720/?snr=1_5_9__300 ) ... and it looks very promising ... I think they use triangular tiles instead of hexes / pentagons ... So far we haven't heard anything about "Civ6 on a globe" ...

Homepage of developer team
http://www.imagineearth.info

Spoiler :

 

[Acken]

We havent heard anything because civ6 is on a flat map.

 

[anandus]

You should check out Civ 4 if you want to play on a globe

 

[historix69]

You should check out Civ 4 if you want to play on a globe

I have played Civ4 for years ... the globe there is a fake feature ... North and South Pole are not part of the map ... the normal rectangular map is just wrapped around the "equator" of a globe with small distortion ... but it is still a flat rectangular map.

 

[plasmacannon]

You should check out Civ 4 if you want to play on a globe

The smarter move.

 

[Ryika]

I think they use triangular tiles instead of hexes / pentagons

The image looked good until I read this. Now I can only see all the forests that look like triangles, and it really destroys the aesthetic for me.

But I still don't see any gameplay coming from "Civ on a globe". It's just a gimmick in my eyes, one that causes tons of problems.

 

[Hakan-i Cihan]

The discussion about Civ on a globe is not new and comes back every year ... especially since Civ5/Civ6 use Hex tiles ...

Today I saw on STEAM the videos/pictures of Early Access to "Imagine Earth" (http://store.steampowered.com/app/280720/?snr=1_5_9__300 ) ... and it looks very promising ... I think they use triangular tiles instead of hexes / pentagons ... So far we haven't heard anything about "Civ6 on a globe" ...

Spoiler :

Homepage of developer team
http://www.imagineearth.info/serious-brothers-ug/

The image looks good, but you should check gameplay on youtube. The ingame graphics dont seem as good.

 

[joncnunn]

Moderator Action: Moved to Ideas & Suggestions

 

[Ll1442]

IDK, but if it is possible to make a good 3D globe, keeping the strategy of tiles in one way or another, I'd like to play on a globe. Guess they would need a lot more time to set that up right, and balance it and everything, not coming any time soon for Civ

 

[historix69]

To avoid misunderstandings :

With "Civilization on a Globe" I refer to our Civilization series transfering to a Globe as it is regularely discussed ... it is not meant to describe "Imagine Earth" gameplay. I have not played "Imagine Earth" so far, but there is a demo for those interested.

I linked the pictures/links for "Imagine Earth" as visualization and to show that a globe in times of 3D-graphics is no longer a big problem. As far as I know the small and young team behind "Imagine Earth" started as a group of computer sciences students or so ...

Triangles, Hexes and Pentagons are all connected on a globe. You can divide a Sphere into 12 Pentagons (Dodecahedron) or into 20 Triangules (Icosahedron). You can divide a Hex into 6 Triangules, a Pentagon into 5 Triangules. If you take a Triangule and divide it into 9 smaller Triangules, the inner 6 of them can form a new Hex ... (The minor problem with Hexagons/Pentagons on a sphere arises at the 12 corner-points of the basic icosahedron/dodecahedron which are shared by only 5 Triangules while all other corner-points are shared by 6 Triangules.)
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_icosahedron