I'm actually making a generic Giant Earth map for Legends of Revolution. My previous idea for an Earth 2000 AD map is too elaborate, & there's a mod in development for 'Earth 2009 AD' (far more elaborate & ambitious than mine).
This is what I have so far:
- Size: 180 x 112 tiles
- Starting era: 4000 BC (Ancient)
- Civs: 37, the same amount as LoR has. The leader selection was done to achieve a general level of historic accuracy, by choosing the leaders that I considered as the best options to represent their civs as a whole. They're in historically accurate locations (used the modern location when needed), except for the Sumerians (they're on the Hebrew starting location, Jerusalem).
- General appearance: I decided to use a slightly altered Mollowide projection for this map. Europe came a bit larger than what it should be (though still too small for non-warmongering games). Some of the problems I've faced with the map include a too small P Ocean, that NE Siberia had to be tremendously stretch in order to make a realistic Bering Strait, & I need to improve the shapes of Africa & S America.
- Resources: I plan to make a version with the more ancient resource locations, & another one with the modern version (this one will have more resources overall).
- Other important details: due to the various crowded zones, I'm considering to make tiny moddings to the map. My biggest concern is how to fit cities in-game, so I decided to change the minimum city distance to 1 tile.
This is what I have so far:
Earth 37 civs by Aug 14, 2009:
Ancient Western World by that date:
Far East by that date:
North America by that date:
S America by that date:
Caribbean & A Ocean by that date:
Europe by that date:
Except to me it looked like asia got a mercator style projection and N America got a different one.
