In my opinion there are a couple of islands that should be added to the coast of Africa to better represent its history and geography.
The first island is Bioko, off the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. Bioko changed hands several times throughout history and its location close to the mainland would make for an interesting gameplay dynamic with naval wars in the area. Presently, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Malabo, is situated on the North Coast. I opted to make Bioko a grassland hill with a jungle to represent its mountainous, wet geography, although it could certainly also work as a plains tile as well.
The second island I propose adding is one that represents the Comoros, between the Northern tip of Madagascar and what is now Mozambique. There are several islands in the Comoros chain, but due to space concerns it's best if one island that represents them all is added. This region is full of history, from its native peoples to Arab and Swahili traders to explorers from Europe such as the French, Dutch, and Portuguese. Several other historical islands exist on Africa's Swahili coast that haven't been added, it would be nice to have at least one to occupy that niche. Personally I felt a plains/Jungle tile best represented the islands.
I have already made code for true city naming for both these islands, if they were added it would take 5 minutes to edit them into the YnAMP source code and make a pull request.
The first island is Bioko, off the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. Bioko changed hands several times throughout history and its location close to the mainland would make for an interesting gameplay dynamic with naval wars in the area. Presently, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Malabo, is situated on the North Coast. I opted to make Bioko a grassland hill with a jungle to represent its mountainous, wet geography, although it could certainly also work as a plains tile as well.
The second island I propose adding is one that represents the Comoros, between the Northern tip of Madagascar and what is now Mozambique. There are several islands in the Comoros chain, but due to space concerns it's best if one island that represents them all is added. This region is full of history, from its native peoples to Arab and Swahili traders to explorers from Europe such as the French, Dutch, and Portuguese. Several other historical islands exist on Africa's Swahili coast that haven't been added, it would be nice to have at least one to occupy that niche. Personally I felt a plains/Jungle tile best represented the islands.
I have already made code for true city naming for both these islands, if they were added it would take 5 minutes to edit them into the YnAMP source code and make a pull request.