Modifying earth 18?

[Ranfal Spectrum]

If you're talking about the Earth-15 Neal is playing right now, it's actually downloadable in his thread right here. It's an excellent map.

 

[Juvenal]

I always thought Australia was pretty rubbish on the earth map. Not exactly too enticing to settle, IMO.

 

[huerfanista]

I always thought Australia was pretty rubbish on the earth map. Not exactly too enticing to settle, IMO.

There's a reason why the british empire used it as a giant penal colony!

 

[Ranfal Spectrum]

The middle is a gross mess of desert without a single River to make it even slightly enticing. The coasts, though, are decent sites for Cities (not the west coast, though). It's really only worth settling if as Korea or Japan you get beat out of the mainland, or as the Khmer or Indians you're establishing the whole Indonesian Island Nation.

 

[dalamb]

I missed the "deer" suggestion first time around; I'll update later today.

From the north down, there is desert, then plains, then grassland, then forested grassland, then jungled grassland, so my "savannah" is a mix.

 

[dalamb]

I've updated the original Africa-fixup message to include a WB save with the deer -- maybe too many!

(You should put it up in the Civ4 - Earthmaps database.)

I'll wait until someone else has checked it out and decided they like it.

 

[vanatteveldt]

@dalamb can you provide a screenshot?

 

[dalamb]

@dalamb can you provide a screenshot?

Your wish is my command I added them to the original message so latecomers see everything together.

 

[huerfanista]

@dalamb
Interesting changes. I think you got a little carried away in Mali, though. I don't think you find grassland bordering desert, so I'd change those grass tiles between the settler and the deer (to the west) to plains. Or you could just extend the plains from the settler to the W coast. I think keeping the floodplains in Mali would be good, too (rather than changing them to grassland). The jungle in west africa is mainly along the coast (I'd change those plains jungle to grass jungle). I'd also expand the central african jungle a bit more to the south and add some more grassland to the SE. Also, the Earth34 map has stone in Mali, I think it's 1NE of the settler.

 

[r_rolo1]

it is maps like earth 18 that makes me about civ don't having marsh as a default.

 

[Agent327]

That's been modded in already, for instance by Rhye in RFC and tsentom1's Thomas' War.

I've updated the original Africa-fixup message to include a WB save with the deer -- maybe too many!I'll wait until someone else has checked it out and decided they like it.

I'll update the Huge Earth 18 civ maps I've uploaded accordingly.

 

[dalamb]

@JEELEN: I haven't made huerfanista's suggested updates yet -- too busy studying for an exam so far this week.

 

[Harv]

Here is my very first stab at modifying the "Earth18" Scenario. I did the following:

1. Eliminated Mongolia, France, Arabia, and Spain.
2. Added Zululand at 69,15.
3. Removed the goody hut at 68,16 and moved it to 75,34.

I have not playtested it yet to see what is playable or which AI civs become powerhouses. So far there are no map adjustments.

My thought for the civilizations to include are as follows:
Team 0 - Egypt or Arabia
Team 1 - India or Khmer
Team 2 - China or Mongolia
Team 3 - Greece or Byzantium or Ottoman
Team 4 - Rome or Spain or Portugal
Team 5 - Persia or Babylon or Sumer
Team 6 - Japan or Korea
Team 7 - Germany or Holy Roman Empire or Netherlands or French or Celts
Team 8 - England or Vikings or Russia
Team 9 - Russia or Vikings - One not selected from 9
Team 10 - Mali or Zulu or Carthage or Ethiopia
Team 11 - Zulu or Carthage or Ethiopia - One not selected from 10
Team 12 - Inca or America or Native Americans
Team 13 - America or Native Americans - One not selected from 12
Team 14 - Aztecs or Mayans

I am including a save for those who want to look or playtest and I am inviting comments. What is in bold above would be the empires included in the saved scenario.

So far I just have an initial save from an Egyptian game. It looks like WB saves are not allowed, but I can upload a zip file.