Having the highest population density, I thought giving extra food for Netherlands is appropriate. I know it is odd, but the only way to give extra food is to make it as desert and put floodplains on it.
lol hate to burst your bubble, but you can just place floodplains over grassland.
Anyways he chose desert because he needs exactly 4 food on the tile. Grasslands would be 6 I think. He just wanted one more food than normal (3).
cool! great newsThats right indeed. In GEM v1.0 - v3.1, I had floodplain on grassland and plains. It was however giving too much bonus to those area. Some people have commented that makes the game too focused in growing the cities without any alternatives. As I don't want GEM to be a mod but just a plain map, I decided to follow the standard, i.e. floodplains only on desert.
How did you get to the map?Ok I can get to the map now but it crashes at the leader select spot what do I do to fix it?
I just tried to download a patch and had the same problem. I don't think it's just these files. I think there is something wrong with the database server at the moment.