map prefs

[misfitpunk]

For those of you who play on monarch or diety, which do you preffer, random maps or do you choose your prefferences?
If you choose your own, give the map details. (size, age, land mass type, etc.)

 

[Daaraa]

When I do choose it is usually continents with everything else left as a default. I like the continents because I like playing a cold war type of a game if I can.

 

[Paalikles]

My Pref
Water: Random
Size: Standard
Age: 4 billions
Land mass: Continents, Pangaea
Barbarians: Raging

Difficulty: Warlord - moving up to next level soon...I hope...

Edit: I tend to spend more time on world maps than on the map generator lately.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Currently I prefer:
tiny
Barbs sedentary
Pangaea
lots of land
climate random
16 civ
me=Persia

Immortals rule!

 

[amadeus]

Me? Russia (ccm01's "Uncle Joe" leaderhead)

Normal size, wet and warm climates, 4 billion years old, eight civs, few barbarians.

 

[ChrisWade]

English
Huge Pangea
Lots of Land
Sedentry Barbs
5 Billion Years
16 civs

 

[RX2000]

America
Regent Level
Huge Map
Continents
Random climate, age, etc
7-8 opponents

 

[Ayatollah So]

Monarch level, lately.
Tiny maps, my computer is slow. Raging hordes of barbarians, such fun. Either pangea or archipelago, depending on my mood, but really I can't see much difference.

Lt. Killer M, how do you get 16 civs on a tiny map? Editor? Upping the number of civs would help a lot, I don't like the way a recent game boiled down so fast to me and one other civ.

 

[No.Dice]

Emperor difficulty
Huge Pangaea, with an archipelago here and there
16 civs
Random Civ - always
Random climate/age etc.
All victory conditions
Culturally linked starting positions off. (is this allowed for HOF games?)

I play Pangaea because i find without a huge amount of land to swallow up, the AI simply rolls over and dies. I see the "settler diarrhea" many have come to hate as a neccessary evil. Disregarding some of the smaller archipelago options, i find any map where the AI's expansion is checked by the coastline is significantly easier to win. The AI is terrible at placing terrain improvements, building in patterns rather than improving what actually needs to be improved, and it can't launch any sort of effective amphibious assualt. Other than that, the AI will have less cities, makings its power a bit smaller on the histograph, and other civs less willing to join it in any wars against me. When i lose a game, a lot of the time its because civ A that started on grassland with 8 cow icons grew so big that it persuaded everybody else to slap me around.

Lately i've been thinking of going back to playing with the standard climate settings. In a recent game that came out cold/arid/3 billion, the AI was just unable to adapt and it had size 10 cities barely producing 12 shields. With 16 civs, at 500 AD i felt like i was at a point where everybody could have allied against me and i still would have come out on top, just wasn't any fun. Didn't mean it to sound like an ego trip, just how i decide if i'm going to continue playing or not.

 

[God]

Egypt
Monarch
Large Map
Large Continents, 60% Water.
5 billion years, wet and warm.
Roaming barbarians, or random.

I like continents, mainly because of how much fun it gets into the Industrial Era. First thing to do for me, is to build sucicide galleys or caravels and get contancts and sell them of for cash and techs. Then later play with those MPPs, and make alliances systems. Sometimes making it continent vs. continent. Love to use D-Day attacks, with those infantry and tanks and artillery. Then later the nuke race. And finally the space race, in which sometimes I use the D-Day attack.

Infact lately I have begun a policy NOT to have an early war just to let the AI keep up, so I can fight Industrial and Modern Wars. I just find Industrial wars, especially with tanks so much more fun than with knights and all.

 

[Exile_Ian]

I usually play on Large maps (Huge is too slow) with default nbr of opponents (12?). I tend to play Monarch or Regent mostly. I usually have a strong game on Regent, and struggle sometimes on Monarchy. Emperor requires too much of a compromise on my playing style to be enjoyable.

I tend to play with norma continents although I do vary it sometimes if I want a particular style of game - almost never go for Archipelago though - I prefer land based expansion and conflict.

I don't usually mess with the other options except I'll often choose the 3rd of the mountain/hills options (i.e. more hills than peaks).

I usually set Barbarians to 'Roaming'.

As far as other settings are concerned - I turn off Space Race (never been interested in that pursuit really).

I don't often stray from those settings, unless I want to try something special (such as 4 civs only on huge Archipelago map which I did once - interesting to see how the civs develop when they don't get early contact which each other).