Really great map. Pretty much exactly what I was looking for.
Is there any reason you chose a width of 304? As long as you're making it big, why not go all out and give it a width of 362? With the same scale, that would make the map 362x124. 40% more tiles, I know.
Actually, I would push a little beyond that. While you've got all the classical world covered, a little bit of expansion (up through most of Scandinavia, down through Indonesia and Ethiopia) would pretty much cover all of world history before the voyages of discovery. So I guess I'd suggest something like 362x160. That would be, in my opinion, the perfect map. (Of course, that's about 80% more tiles than you have, although most of the vertical expansion would be ocean, desert, and tundra.)
I guess I consider such a map ideal because I would consider my "dream" scenario a scenario that runs from around 300 BC to 1500 AD, where colonizing Alpha Centauri is replaced with colonizing the new world. With the level of detail this map would allow, you could manage 31 starting positions easily, and you could have a much wider range of unit movement speeds (think light Mongol cavalry with a move of 5, fast infantry with a move of 2, et cetera).
OK, enough pie-in-the-sky for one post. Great looking map.
Is there any reason you chose a width of 304? As long as you're making it big, why not go all out and give it a width of 362? With the same scale, that would make the map 362x124. 40% more tiles, I know.
Actually, I would push a little beyond that. While you've got all the classical world covered, a little bit of expansion (up through most of Scandinavia, down through Indonesia and Ethiopia) would pretty much cover all of world history before the voyages of discovery. So I guess I'd suggest something like 362x160. That would be, in my opinion, the perfect map. (Of course, that's about 80% more tiles than you have, although most of the vertical expansion would be ocean, desert, and tundra.)
I guess I consider such a map ideal because I would consider my "dream" scenario a scenario that runs from around 300 BC to 1500 AD, where colonizing Alpha Centauri is replaced with colonizing the new world. With the level of detail this map would allow, you could manage 31 starting positions easily, and you could have a much wider range of unit movement speeds (think light Mongol cavalry with a move of 5, fast infantry with a move of 2, et cetera).
OK, enough pie-in-the-sky for one post. Great looking map.
Awesome map! 5 stars!
