Map Preview: The Latest Version of my 180x180 Map

[Rhye]

Originally posted by Nder
Besides, nobody said that civ placement should be "fair", it wasn't in RL, some people started out in more hospitable terrain, thats just how it works. If you are playing on an Earth Map, don't you want it to be as realistic as possible? I agree that there has to be a certain amount of consideration given to playability, but I think a creator has to be careful that they do not take too much artistic license. Part of your decision in deciding which civ to play has to involve their geographic location. (Probably one reason a lot of people don't like playing on Earth Maps.)

Look at this picture cropped from a screenshot of the day in the main CFC page: it is a good example of playtesting with kal-el's map.
Do you think that the world situation is realistic?
I don't think so.
Many many cities in Alaska, Greenland, Northern Canada, Siberia, Kamchatka, Afghanistan, Kazakistan.....
....something is wrong. That places must be BAD to live in. So it's needed more tundra, less forests, more deserts, etc.
I think that this aspect is very important for the map realism, it is not art license.

 

[Nder]

LoL, Do I think that world situation is realistic? To a degree, yes. There are cities in those places in RL, we can't tell from that image what size those cities are. They could be and most likely are all rather small, but the AI will place cities anywhere it can. And besides that that is using the older map, not this new one he is working on. Those regions are covered in Tundra on the old map, and if you look at the preview of the new map you will see that he has removed a lot of the forest from Siberia and that whole tundra line area across the globe.

 

[Rhye]

Originally posted by Nder
Like I said it looks like you removed some of the Pyrenees.

No! The southern belongs to the "Cadena Costero Catalana"
The nothern I cut belongs to french hills.
So both the mountains I changed to hills are really hills!
Pyrenees are only in the French-Spanish border: take a look better at the Atlas

 

[Kal-el]

Come on now guys. Lets play nice. Its just a map.

Rhye,

thanks for all the suggestions. I am going to leave my map pretty much alone, but I will take another look at the Pyrenees. How does that sound to you?

Also, Nder, I have reworked Ireland a bit, it only connects once now. So that should make you at least somewhat happier.

Other than that, I think the map is done. I will release it tomorrow or Saturday, then you guys can have at it.

 

[Kal-el]

ok, take a look at the new preview above. I think you will both be happy.

 

[Nder]

looks cool! I notice you left Ireland attached to England. That's ok, I will just edit that myself

 

[Rhye]

I see that it looks better. But I'd change Italy: I would add Corse; Sicily should not be attached to Calabria and hills should be in the right places -> look at my screeshot: I'm italian and I know very well that there aren't hills in Campania but they are in Puglia for example. Uh, another thing: I'd add a bit more jungle to India.

Anyway, we are all waiting :9

 

[Kal-el]

Sorry Rhye,

Italy stays as is. I know Sicily isn't attached to but in order to get the boot to have a toe it needs to be. But I may add Corsica. More Jungle in India might be a possibility too.

Certain things were done more out of concern of getting the outline right than actually worrying about the terrain. I know some people disagree with me on that, but, its my map and I like it that way.

Seriously though, I do appreciate the input. The only other change I might make is to the southern tip of Saudi Arabia. I need to play around with it a bit.

 

[Kal-el]

ok, I just uploaded a new preview. I added Corsica and put more jungle in India (though I forgot to edit the close-up with the new imge of that region, you can see it in the minimap) and I fixed the souther tip of Saudi Arabia.

I am leaving Sicily attached, but if there are no other suggestions I will release a clean (no resource, no starting location, no barbarians, no goody huts) version tomorrow.

 

[Rhye]

OK. No other suggestion except to check the correct position of hills in Europe and Britain (expecially in Italy, where I saw somethibg wrong)

 

[Kal-el]

Clean Map has been posted in the completed maps forum.