Digging into map sizes

[Lord Shadow]

Check this out.

Graphics Testing Only. Perhaps currently experimental and coming in the future? Speculate away!

 

[Laurana Kanan]

There are a couple mods that have begun to take advantage of this.

Thread 'YnAMP - Larger Map, TSL, Continents++ (beta)'

Feb 6, 2025

New map sizes, Continents++ script and TSL Greatest Earth Map

See the download page for full description, installation instructions, known issues and debugging

Screenshots

Some consecutive map generation using the "Continent+ (YnAMP)" script at various sizes

Spoiler :

download here:

• Gedemon
• Replies: 156
• Forum: Released Mods

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Thread 'Larger Maps'

Feb 5, 2025

Enables Large and Huge map sizes. They are already in the game, just hidden from view in the game setup right now.
I also adjusted the player count to 10 for these map sizes. More would crash the game unless you manually assign duplicate civs at setup.

This is just a file overwrite of some base game files, not a proper mod structure. So use this at your own risk and make backups!

Place the contents of the zip file in your game's installation folder, normally found in: ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VII

Map sizes are the same as in Civ VI, but a bit of extra width...

• JNR13
• Replies: 18
• Forum: Released Mods

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[stealth_nsk]

Larger maps are clearly on their way, but they surely require some tweaking in both map scripts and gameplay value adjustments.

 

[infiniterocks]

You can run more players per map as well, the only problem is, there's not enough civilizations to avoid using duplicates with more than 10 players. These features are going to come out with the DLCs.

 

[The_J]

Graphics Testing Only. Perhaps currently experimental and coming in the future? Speculate away!

As noted in Gedemon's thread which Laurana linked further above here, it seems you get some weird graphic effects on big maps (at least the minimap).
Seems Firaxis saw that issue too.

 

[xphantomx]

Larger maps are clearly on their way, but they surely require some tweaking in both map scripts and gameplay value adjustments.

According to the discord channel, it’s mostly due to not enough civs to fill out larger maps right now so it’s not a priority to push out and balance yet.