Huge Earth TSL Map

Askia Muhammad said:
The only thing I'll say is your complaining about not enough space in Europe... so were the Europeans. Look at a semi-accurate projection map - Western Europe is tiny.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...inent-big-China-India-US-Europe-together.html
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If we look at a world map in a rectangle frame, then all the lands closed to the poles are stretched out and all lands close to the equator will be underrepresented.

If you look at this, you may believe Greenland is much bigger than the Sahara:
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This offers a different perspective:
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I feel like Civ7 should definitely adopt a spherical map, where circumnavigation is shorter at latitudes closer to the poles. That would give more land area around the equatorial regions. I'm fine if above a certain latitude (say 70 or 80 degrees north/south. where there really aren't any substantial settlements of any size), the map is just blocked off, so we don't have any issues with non-hexagonal tiles near the poles.
 
Shadowstrike said:
I feel like Civ7 should definitely adopt a spherical map, where circumnavigation is shorter at latitudes closer to the poles. That would give more land area around the equatorial regions. I'm fine if above a certain latitude (say 70 or 80 degrees north/south. where there really aren't any substantial settlements of any size), the map is just blocked off, so we don't have any issues with non-hexagonal tiles near the poles.
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I'm all in, but, can it be done with hexagonal tiles? Maybe the shape of the tile will have to change for this?
 
i imagine that the engine used to create the game is reaching its limit and causing stability problems when going above a certain size. hopefully they will have a better engine for civ7 to allow for bigger maps. I quite enjoy playing on ridicolous sizes maps. Shout out to Gedemon and his maps esspecially the europe script.
 
Shadowstrike said:
I feel like Civ7 should definitely adopt a spherical map, where circumnavigation is shorter at latitudes closer to the poles. That would give more land area around the equatorial regions. I'm fine if above a certain latitude (say 70 or 80 degrees north/south. where there really aren't any substantial settlements of any size), the map is just blocked off, so we don't have any issues with non-hexagonal tiles near the poles.
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At that rate I think we also need trade winds, westerlies, and so forth, which is an addition I'm all for.
 
For my first april update game I will roll just some normal map (standard size continents and islands probably) but for the second game I am definately taking on huge earth map.

Redesigned Georgia is tempting and has a nice location with action all around.
 
Sorry if this was posted, but has it been confirmed that huge tsl earth and tsl Mediterranean will be free to everyone? I know the highlands map isn’t available on PS4 without NFP. Thanks.
 
Potatoe985 said:
Sorry if this was posted, but has it been confirmed that huge tsl earth and tsl Mediterranean will be free to everyone? I know the highlands map isn’t available on PS4 without NFP. Thanks.
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It should in theory be available to all, it's part of the free update pack so not limited to NFP. Highlands was actually part of the Byzantium & Gaul pack which was paid content, which is why anyone who didn't pay for NFP didn't get it.
 
It's always like this. The biggest Earth map I know off in Civ4 has room for well over 500 cities in total. Western Europe still feels small (you can barely squeeze 4 cities on the Iberian peninsula), Japan has room for 7-8 cities 5 of which are fishing villages working mostly water.
 
blackbutterfly said:
You have to pick leaders to play against (and city states) to play TSL.
Use save configurations. And brush up on your geography. :D
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I played the normal Earth TSL and it wasn't too bad, even with Europe over represented (Portugal, Sparta, Macedonia, Georgia and Russia). Gorgo got kicked early and someone did have to go, but the Georgia only went because I wanted Tsbilisi. Macedonia only went because they thought that they could take advantage of my weakened state. It was cramped, but.other than maybe Gorgo, there were no loyalty issues (I had.met her but not found her city, so I'm not sure if Sparta flipped or if Alexander took her out). The problem with the huge map is that there are 50% more civs, but Europe isn't 50% larger, so that could be really bad.
 
Is Japan really isolated by deep water? Inevitable size issues aside, that seems foolish.

The Sea of Japan should be shallow water, just like the Mediterranean and the Baltic as these have been navigable since ancient times.

At the very least there should be two narrow crossings to mainland Asia: from Kyushu to the Korean Peninsula and Hokkaido via Sakhalin to the Russian Far East.
 
PiR said:
If you look at this, you may believe Greenland is much bigger than the Sahara
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Speaking of Greenland, have you looked at it on the Huge Earth map?
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(This is from World Builder). Ice on coast to represent ice sheets. Nice idea but what happens when ice melts? Greeenland becomes a sliver? Not to mention circumnavigable.:shake:

It looks like Firaxis copied @totalslacker Play The World Earth and took a nice idea and made it worse. :cringe:

At least Greenland is now part of the Americas (unlike regular TSL Earth). :lol:
 
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