That's awesome that you would volunteer your time for other people! Good on you!
Okay, I would like to make my appeal as follows:
I have been playing Civilization since the original series (nearly 20 years now) and have played and purchased each one (though not all expansions). I've probably spent thousands of hours playing by now. And about 90% of the time, I play on realistic world maps.
Anyhow, I would like to ask you with all my heart to make a map where the major Eurasian powers have room to grow and colonize the New World (North America, South America, and Australia) and Africa. This is the game I want to play over and over again.
I know you don't want to do a world map, but I am begging you to help me create the map I want to play on over and over again. I can assure you that if you make the map I need, it will be much appreciated for countless hours and you will be thanked in my head repeatedly!
This is the map I so desperately want:
Based on Jonah's Medium Sized G&K Map with 24 civs:
- But even more enlarged Europe, Japanese Archipelago, and Korean Peninsula. This is to give the major powers room to grow.
- Most major cities in Europe can be founded. This includes real world locations such as Brussels, Geneva, Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Frankfurt, Bucharest, Warsaw, Belgrade, Seville, Barcelona, etc.
- Reduced Siberia and Central Asia land mass (Russians and Mongolians become too strong by expanding without check). This would lead to a slightly warped Eurasian continent where Northeast Asia is closer to Europe.
- I am looking for a balanced map rather than a map that is accurate. Most civs should be able to found at least three cities each. Exception: Dutch can build cities in the current real world locations of Amsterdam and Brussels only. Danes start with only Copenhagen location.
- I would like to have the Celts replaced by the English on Britain and put the Celts in Ireland. Britain should support three cities (London, Cardiff, and Manchester), while Ireland supports two cities (Dublin and Belfast).
- France supports five cities (Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Brest, and Orleans).
- Germany supports four cities (Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, and Vienna).
- Two oil in North Sea. One for Norway and one for Britain.
- At a minimum, the English, French, Spanish, Germans, and Romans should be able to build at least three cities each on their real-life geography.
- Madrid is founded in the center of Iberia and there is enough room to establish Lisbon on the west coast.
- Istanbul is placed on a tile in Europe that connects it to Asia Minor, but also acts as an ismuth for the Black Sea.
- Japanese Archipelago (four home islands) is all connected so that the Japanese can build in real world locations of Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Sapporo.
- Korean Peninsula is large enough so that the Koreans can build in real world locations of Seoul, Busan, and Pyongyang.
- North America, South America, Australia, and Africa are empty of civs.
- Australia is slightly smaller than it is in Jonah's map. So is Alaska.
- New Zealand is accurately portrayed as North and South Islands (separated by water) and smaller so that only one city can be built on each island.
- Natural resource placement is more accurate (ex: no oil in Australia, but oil on Borneo north coast).
- Java is the same three tiles as currently is, but with bananas on west side, grassland in center, and spices on the east side. North and south sea tiles of center both have fish. This is to support a very large population on Java. After all, in real life Java has over one hundred million persons!
- Philippines is more accurate-looking. I know this is challenging... But only three cities should be able to settled there (Manila, Davao, and Cebu).
- Borneo, New Guinea, and Celebes slightly smaller.
- One oil in Burma.
- Japanese should be programmed to colonize other islands. They never seem to leave the Japanese Archipelago and only attack the Koreans in every game I play!
- Okinawa exists as a single tile island. Jeju exists as a single tile island (if possible, but not required).
- One oil in sea between Sakhalin and Russian mainland. No oil in Sea of Japan.
- Concentration of oil in the Persian Gulf (like at least four oil resources).
- Singapore as an island is present and settleable.
- All major continental Southeast Asian cities (Hanoi, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Rangoon, Mandalay, Kuala Lumpur) and can be built.
- There is oil in Xinjiang, Azerbaijan, and Kazakshtan.
- Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Dominica can all be settled and look decent.
- One oil on Venezuela. And one on Ecuador.
- North America is slightly reduced and Canada cannot be settled that much except for major cities like Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Halifax.
- Alaska is not so big, but has oil. Gulf of Mexico has two oil (one for Mexico and one for Texas).
- Hawaii is represented properly. Honestly, I don't remember if it is or not in Jonah's map, but I want to settle only two cities with the big island of Hawaii as two tiles. There should be three islands total.
- Madagascar is not so big.
- One oil in Libya and one oil in Algeria. One also on Nigerian coast and one on Gabon.
- There are two golds and two gems in South Africa. Namibia has one gem and so does Botswana.
- All starting locations are accurate.
- All civs should have nearby access to iron, except for perhaps Dutch, Ottomans, Arabs, and Celts.
18 Civs (no city-states):
- English
- Celts
- French
- Germans
- Romans
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Danes
- Dutch
- Russians
- Ottomans
- Arabs
- Persians
- Indians
- Chinese
- Siamese
- Koreans
- Japanese
If you can upload this map, so I can play it as a mod regularly and without any bugs, I would thank you forever!
PLEASE, PLEASE consider my request. Thank you!!!