Favorite Map Type so far?

[DonPato]

But Siptah, that would mean there is no "Random" map option in Civ VI, which seems wierd right?

That's why I was confused. Also, I believe that shuffle in CiV was a random selection from continents, pangea, islands, etc.

 

[Siptah]

But Siptah, that would mean there is no "Random" map option in Civ VI, which seems wierd right?

But shuffle still is random, just a different random than "either pangea, continents, island plates, inland sea or fractal".
If Shuffle would be just that (randomly choosing one of the other maps), then why is it called shuffle? And why did I never play on a map that was clearly Inland Sea, Pangea or Continents (the other two are possible to have appeared)? Maybe I need a larger sample...
And what is the advantage of "choses random script" over "randomly combines scripts"? Anyway - I wish you happy games on whatever map you'll find yourself on!

 

[DonPato]

But shuffle still is random, just a different random than "either pangea, continents, island plates, inland sea or fractal".
If Shuffle would be just that (randomly choosing one of the other maps), then why is it called shuffle? And why did I never play on a map that was clearly Inland Sea, Pangea or Continents (the other two are possible to have appeared)? Maybe I need a larger sample...
And what is the advantage of "choses random script" over "randomly combines scripts"? Anyway - I wish you happy games on whatever map you'll find yourself on!

I agree with you completely, and I sincerely hope that you are right about shuffle just truly being totally random. I'm almost certain that that was not the case in CiV, as I stated above, but I hope that it is for CiVI. I'll probably play a shuffle game tonight to test things out for myself =] I hope that Firaxis can update the tooltips and things to let us know more clearly. I mean, it's weird that things are unclear enough that we have to even be having this conversation, isn't it?

 

[dwarfling]

I changed my mind, I hate Pangea now. It makes it very easy for the Deity AI to get a "surprise" Religion victory because they can just send the missionary hordes everywhere and the chain reaction of rival AIs spreading enemy religion means you either wipe the leader fast or lose mid-game.

 

[Disgustipated]

island plates was just horrible for me. Very low production and no mountains. I started in tundra as well. Inland sea was much better for me but I didn't have diverse luxuries, so I had more amenity problems with the ai's being reluctant to trade. Continents is still my favorite, fractal is alright as well.

 

[Mustakrakish]

I would enjoy fractal if it wasn't so snaky. I hate snaky continents.

 

[Larsenex]

Yea I like 2 or 3 landmasses with a some deep water betweeen them. Hopefully we can get 'larger' maps ....

 

[ProMeTheus112]

Shuffle sounds awesome I wonder what fractal is like

 

[cranium1]

I like continents, at least 3-4 medium/ large ones, with a few random islands with some rare strat resources/ luxuries.

 

[isau]

I really want a map version or way to ensure that it's possible to sail all the way around the globe. The existence of sea ice prevents that in the current game in most cases.

I tried the Shuffle maps and used a cheat code to reveal them. Here are some examples I got.

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[criZp]

Just played a map of inland lakes, tiny map with 5 players, so 1 more than standard.

Early game I took out saladin, then my legions kept on marching westward... and it just took forever before I found two other civs, like my units were outdated when I got over there, and walking them back to my territory to upgrade would take probably like 15 minutes.

The map itself was nice enough, but next time I'm adding an additional 2 players, if not 3 (so 7/8 total, tiny map)

 

[smartcanuck1988]

I liked how the continents were distributed in the Fractal map I played. Continents and Pangea both had stupid looking "continents" that are clearly just diagonal straight lines running down the entire landmass. At least in Fractal the "continents" looked like they begin/end near chokepoints and some mountain ranges. Whether it was luck (very likely, considering I've played so few times on any map type) or not, I liked it.

The Shuffle map script looks like it randomly chooses Fractal (50% of time) / Island (30%) / Continents (20%), with random Age, Temperature, and Sea Level.

 

[KmDubya]

I'm liking Inland Sea maps.

• The outer boundary ends up spawning a lot of barbarians which keeps things interesting.
• You probably have only two or three neighbors that you can reach by land. This cuts down on your ability to steamroll the map with horsemen.
• Since some of the AI will not be reachable early they will have a chance to grow and prosper while you slug it out with your neighbors.
• The world will learn of your atrocities, no more clearing a continent and meeting the much smaller neighbors. The extra everything from owning an entire continent is a huge boost that the AI just can't compete with.
• Navies are useful but not required, but unlike a Pangea should not be ignored.
• You still have several continental plates for the various continent bonuses.
• Lots of weird mountain ranges making for choke points.

In my current Emperor game as Germany six of the eight players spawned in the southern half while two spawned with the city states in the top half. The two halves were also separated by a jungle belt that is like eight tiles deep plus mountains. I'm stuck in the tundra with only a green belt along the coast dealing with endless hordes of Scythian horses in the Industrial age while Sumeria in the north had gobbled up all the city states in the ancient era and was in the Atomic age. He built Ruhr valley 50+ turns before I ever got to factories.

 

[sigmakan]

island plates was just horrible for me. Very low production and no mountains. I started in tundra as well. Inland sea was much better for me but I didn't have diverse luxuries, so I had more amenity problems with the ai's being reluctant to trade. Continents is still my favorite, fractal is alright as well.

I found I needed to set the map age to New for island plates, otherwise there would be no hills/mountains.

 

[Exodite]

Currently I really don't like any of them though I default to Huge Continents maps at the moment.

The problem is that every single Huge Continents map I've played so far (20+) have consisted of two mega-continents which stretch completely from the north pole to the south pole, are a roughly oval shape and have 80% of the AI civilizations start within spitting distance of me on one of them.

Trying for Island Plates have landed me alone on a minuscule island which can't support more than one city, though I've only tried that three times so far.

Eagerly awaiting better map scripts, something that produces 6-8 continents on huge with 2-3 civs per, and never more than 4, while leaving some uninhabited would be ideal. And one that spaces out the civs evenly over the map instead of having them all crawling up my backside from the start.

And, oh yes, much much bigger maps than we have now.

 

[Bobolove]

Every map is pretty Moderator Action: <snip> because you most times sea ways are blocked by antartics. I had to use cheat to reveal map like 20 time before I got one decent map.

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[Pico 22]

Islands, because exploring with my ships/scouts has always been my favorite part of the game and in Civ VI it's only interesting with this type of map - though there are obvious drawbacks, as mentioned above.

 

[durecellrabbit]

I like Continents the best but the max sized north-south continents it makes are not great. I'd like a script with more and better shaped continents as well as some nice uninhabited large islands.

 

[DonPato]

After seeing the kinds of things that shuffle produces, I'm actually surprised to see it as low as it is. Fractal is still my favorite, but still...

 

[lordhaw]

I tend to play continents as I regularly have the best games on them. I tried fractal once and I ended up in such a horrible start position that I had to restart and haven't tried it again. Haven't really tried the others yet as I generally haven't liked them in previous Civ games.

I'm not fond of how the continents come out on the Continents maps though...there's something about how they are shaped that seems...off. They are too long and not fat enough or something.