Most WTH Map Ever (screenshot)

[aimlessgun]

So I was playing on a huge Highlands map, and had found all the civs, but only 1 city state. My exploration efforts were very limited due to hostile neighbors and impassable mountains, but I also started feeling that the map I could see was *much* smaller than a 'huge' map size.



So I decided to cntrl-z reveal everything....



Holy hell. This is at 1000 AD btw.

 

[DagHammarskjol]

So I was playing on a huge Highlands map,

Where are you guys getting all these maps? All I have is continents, archipelago, pangaea and Earth.

 

[kaltorak]

woot, gogo settlers!

 

[imtheman]

Where are you guys getting all these maps? All I have is continents, archipelago, pangaea and Earth.

use the advanced setup to be able to select all the maps.

 

[gonzo562]

i didnt know control z revels the whole map. I will try this later on

 

[Knocky]

i didnt know control z revels the whole map. I will try this later on

It doesn't for me.

Maybe he has a mod to do it.

 

[skyclad]

Wow that is just amazing What a discovery... any way out of your mountain passes? At least, even if the AI sprawls out stupidly their capitols are all nice and close

 

[aimlessgun]

i didnt know control z revels the whole map. I will try this later on

You have to turn on debug mode by editing a couple files. I forget how, there was a post in the Strategy and Tips forum.

Wow that is just amazing What a discovery... any way out of your mountain passes? At least, even if the AI sprawls out stupidly their capitols are all nice and close

I have finally found one exit to the maze! Finally some city states to trade with
I didn't look closely when I revealed everything to reduce my cheating, so there may be more, but so far I only see one haha.

 

[PieceOfMind]

How to reveal the map

See this thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=9681416#post9681416

Note that once you reveal the map, you cannot unreveal it, so make sure you save the game first if necessary.

 

[gunter]

This Ctrl-z tip should be triggered when satellites become available into the game

 

[ChaK_]

There is a mod to add a reveal map button

 

[Nutteria]

THANK YOU! No srsly thank you OP for showing me a mapstyle that will actually make me work for my domination win. Emperor domination here I come!

 

[aimlessgun]

THANK YOU! No srsly thank you OP for showing me a mapstyle that will actually make me work for my domination win. Emperor domination here I come!

I've always been a big fan of highlands.

Frankly I don't know if it will make you work that much harder. I guess if you were abusing horsemen, then yeah that would likely not work because of the cramped spaces and massive quantities of hills.

 

[JP1]

Not the hugest fan of highlands. Wasn't Highlands in Civ4 pretty nototious for generating some insanely powerful AI at higher difficult levels because of the massive amount of land they could grab? Seems like you'd see the same kind of thing in Civ5 when the high difficulty levels make happiness much less of an issue for the AI.

But yeah, that screenshot really screams that there's some kind of bug or strange code in the starting position script, it's really bizarre to have all the players in one clump and all the city states in another. Is anyone else having these issues on highlands?

 

[Novem]

And I thought the US Plains map I am on right now was big. That's pretty awesome OP. I'll have to try a highlands map as my next map choice.

 

[Junuxx]

Awesome map
Beeline for Paratroopers!

 

[DioAurion]

Belgrade would be ever so pleased if you built a road to them from your capital...

 

[aimlessgun]

Not the hugest fan of highlands. Wasn't Highlands in Civ4 pretty nototious for generating some insanely powerful AI at higher difficult levels because of the massive amount of land they could grab? Seems like you'd see the same kind of thing in Civ5 when the high difficulty levels make happiness much less of an issue for the AI.

But yeah, that screenshot really screams that there's some kind of bug or strange code in the starting position script, it's really bizarre to have all the players in one clump and all the city states in another. Is anyone else having these issues on highlands?

The insane AI was the best part of Civ4 highlands! Led to my most epic game ever, where I had to go nuclear to stop a 240 unit stack advancing on me while my spaceship was mid flight. I was promptly nuked in return and the entire planet suffered a nuclear holocaust while the only survivors of mankind reached Alpha Centauri.

 

[EmpireOfCats]

Yes, the huge maps are really huge this time. I found that out the hard way when I tried the huge Earth map and thought I was in Australia when I hadn't gotten any further than the Philippines. This is something they really, really did right.

 

[aimlessgun]

Yes, the huge maps are really huge this time. I found that out the hard way when I tried the huge Earth map and thought I was in Australia when I hadn't gotten any further than the Philippines. This is something they really, really did right.

Hrm I actually mistyped in my original post, this is a "large" size map.

I wasn't trying to point out the size of the map...just the incredibly bizarre civ start locations and the fact that because of the mountains, nobody could expand into the wilderness even by 1000 AD.