This is the debut NES for the Three Type City System! Also, I like the idea of gradually expanding mostly-black maps.
The forum, at present, has a glut of magic/sci-fi threads. There's this, ENES, Darwin's, that Warcraft one, that Forgotten Realms one. Not to mention Gods of the Sky. Then we have two industrial Nes'es, one board NES, and one modern alt hist. There is only ONE fresh start currently running! (MjM's is on temporary hiatus, kinda. And Fin's is more of a throwback to olden times.)
The times they are a changin.... Not to mention, Iggy's bored and wants to take a break from LINES. No harm in that.
EDIT: I call that tiny island on the tip for my starting spot! Can't you just imagine it, 10 NES'ers duking it out in that tiny little space, with the winners forming great empires that eventually collapse, and the losers going on some huge Biblical exodus to a totally different Promised land...and then the new empires clash again...
I like this concept. It actually gives exploration meaning, because we don't know what the world looks like.