Is there any bonus to first navigate the globe?
- Thread starter Frostyboy
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Seems like its the first to get the map of the world and has nothing to do with actually circumnavigating it. I traded for a partial world map to fill mine in and I got the bonus. Not a big bug or anything but just think it should be the first ship to actually circumnavigate and not just the first guy who puts the map together.
Hrdina
Chieftain
Actually, I think that it is for the first civ to have revealed at least one map square at every longitude. So, you're right that not only do you not have to have a single ship circumnavigate the globe, but you could conceivably accomplish this feat through only land-based exploration and map trading.Raider62 said:
Changing this to require a ship to actually circumnavigate the globe would be interesting, but could be difficult to implement.
Hrdina
Chieftain
It also makes a funny noise to draw your attention to the log.Frostyboy said:
As it was said, it does not require using ships.
And in two ships example, they dont need to meet. If one (for exmple) go near north edge and second go near south edge, you get this bonus once their most east/west revealed square are in adjectant vertical lines.
And in two ships example, they dont need to meet. If one (for exmple) go near north edge and second go near south edge, you get this bonus once their most east/west revealed square are in adjectant vertical lines.
BeefontheBone
Windbag of the sea
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The point is to prove that the earth is round, not for a single ship to go all the way around it - giving it when you reveal a tile at every longitude is both easier to program and more realistic.
Sahkuhnder
Delusions of grandeur
Frostyboy said:
All you have to do is trade maps (if you can) to create a continuous route around the globe.
This article thread provides details.
Bushface
Deity
salty said:
Or how about Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which you can fall off the edge of ? He's even got an explanation for what happens to all the water that pours off. There'd probably be licensing problems for that, though, and far too many 'gold' resources in the Counterweight Continent.
sligo
Warlord
I'm waiting for the release of Larry Niven's ring world.
(Not the lame ring-world they have now)
However, the land area is beyond huge - consider a circle with diameter of 186 million miles, let's see, times pi, that would be close to 585 million miles in circumference. Doesn't have to be that wide, but if we assume a rough scale of 1 square = 10 miles, that would make our ring-world 58.5 million squares "long" before it meets itself.
Just for fun, back in Civ2, I created a map using the longest map with a narrow width. What I got was a grid that was something like 200x10. Sure made things interesting!
I guess the next level beyond Ring World is a Dyson Sphere...
- Sligo
(Not the lame ring-world they have now)
However, the land area is beyond huge - consider a circle with diameter of 186 million miles, let's see, times pi, that would be close to 585 million miles in circumference. Doesn't have to be that wide, but if we assume a rough scale of 1 square = 10 miles, that would make our ring-world 58.5 million squares "long" before it meets itself.
Just for fun, back in Civ2, I created a map using the longest map with a narrow width. What I got was a grid that was something like 200x10. Sure made things interesting!
I guess the next level beyond Ring World is a Dyson Sphere...
- Sligo
Errata
Warlord
sligo said:
Well even just our little Earth is too big to really be represented in the game. Earth maps have to be squashed up to fit. You're lucky to fit one city in the major European countries, even though the real things have hundreds. So you have quite a lot of room to scale the game up to larger maps (if it could handle it) before you have to go on to representing worlds that are massively larger.
