I have rather bad news: my GEM seems to not be convertable to a WBS file, in my computer at least. The map was about 80% complete, it just needed the oceanbound islands, resources on the more remote regions & overall resource & smaller terrain corrections. The temporary islands for the available civs are still present, but that's easily removable.
Still, I did manage to use the gamefile to play some turns as Ramses II of Egypt. How was it?:
- The sheer size & accurateness made the experience feel tremendously realistic
- Civs were overall in good terms with each other
- Only Europe had serious space shortages (Germany, Spain, Portugal, Austria, England, France, Poland & Netherlands have overlapping capital BFCs in their historically accurate locations)
- Civs had a tendency of settling their historically corresponding land
- Civs developed at a good pace.
Take in consideration this was the ancient era only (4000 BC to 1500 BC); so the real action hasn't been seen yet. With this post, I attached the baby picture of my GEM, on turn 0 (as seen from the endgame screens).
How might I get the map to be usable?--I need someone that has a computer more powerful than mine (I have Vista Home Premium, 64-bit, 4 GB of RAM, 2 GHz of processing speed); &/or I need a more experienced civ mapmaker to check the text version of the World Builder Save. If some of you get to make it work, we'd be able to use what Lean called "the best damn Earth Map I've ever seen...".
What would I be doing if it's not possible to fix the problem?--I've seen Carter's GEM, & the map needs major overhauling. If my rig cooperates, I'll be able to provide a great looking GEM. The other alternative is for me to make ANOTHER GEM, just not as big (this one is 192 X 120 tiles; the alternative might be between 144 X 90 & 176 X 110).
For now, I'll let you see the image of what my GEM looks like:
P. D. Egypt appears with no settled cities, since I spent a few turns finding a better location.