map settings

[Lstewart4]

what map settings are the best/ most fun to play fall from heaven on?

 

[fuzzy_bunnies]

I personally like standard, tectonics, AI no building requirements, Barbarian World, and the one that doubles animals.

AI no building requirements helps because there are a lot more units that require buildings in FFH and the AI doesn't necessarily build a lot of buildings. Its a bit of a downer to bring your army to the enemy and fight a bunch of warriors. Barbarian world gives the expansion phase a little more danger. The one that doubles animals is good if you like to be able to capture them for carnivals etc.

Hrmm there's one more setting that I'm forgetting right now. I can't remember if the double bonuses option doubles the number of terrain bonuses or doubles unit upgrade bonuses. Anyone know?

I started playing at Large lately just because it was a bit of a letdown after meeting all the other civs on standard.

PS anyone ever get FFH to generate a map if you use techtonics and set it to "islands"? It always seems to hang for me.

 

[zup]

I managed that in one of my first games. 0.32 l I think.

The problem, I had no copper on my island so I could not build real ships. And water sucks hard for anybody but Lanun, and it sucks for them too. CIV just does ferrying units over water a nightmare.

 

[loffenx]

I usually play on Tiny, 5 players, lately on archipelago with sneaky continents, low sea level, Flavourmod 2, no technology brokering. I'm not a fan of large empires, on this setting each of the 5 players get to build 5-7 cities before they run out of productive land. It makes me more focused, though I still haven't finished many games. I used to play on as large maps as possible, but recently changed my mind completely.

 

[fuzzy_bunnies]

I usually play on Tiny, 5 players, lately on archipelago with sneaky continents, low sea level, Flavourmod 2, no technology brokering. I'm not a fan of large empires, on this setting each of the 5 players get to build 5-7 cities before they run out of productive land. It makes me more focused, though I still haven't finished many games. I used to play on as large maps as possible, but recently changed my mind completely.

I'm with ya there. I used to play on standard with 70% water because it just becomes a chore after a while managing 20-30 cities.

The only reason I started going bigger was that I liked meeting more civs. With a larger map, its fun to actually play for a couple hundred turns and actually have the knowledge in the back of your mind that even though your dominating your continent, there may be an undiscovered continent out there with a more advanced civ watching your puny backwater nations fight it out on your small land.

 

[zup]

Nikis-Knight's map of Erebus, raging barbarians, aggressive ai, no tech trading, new random seed, wild lands, living world, broader alignments. Hands down the best map.