Poll - what's your favourite map to play on?

[Valdy]

I must say I nearly always go for the large World Map.

Whatever it is it has to have continents.

Anyone else having probs downloading the maps from this site? I can't seem to do it.

 

[Az]

I like the pacific map and I hate those AI custom maps. Even if you choose continent you'll get a multitude of scatered islands.....

 

[Magnus]

I enjoy the big map of Europe because there is so much land.

 

[BlueMonday]

The European map that came with the "civ 2 toolkit" CD is my favorite to play on. It has everything you could want in a map.

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[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

I like to have the largest playing surface posible, but I let the AI make it a random map. I like to explore the world, and since I'm good with geography, I know the shape that the real world has, so it's more fun to be surprised for me.

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[Kev]

I agree with A of A. While it can be more challenging to have to deal with islands and smaller conintents, I enjoy the fact that I have to explore each world. Exploring and finding things is really half the fun! I usually choose large random maps and just have at it.


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[oryx]

I almost always use a random map even though the geography it creates is strange. I hope that Civ III comes up with a better map generator.

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[TimTheEnchanter]

Playing with real world maps seems like cheating. I played one game on the medium world map and as soon as I realized I had started in Western Africa, I thought, "Well, I should go get over to Cairo to secure the continent, and maybe the river will be nice too!" (it turned out to be my SSC!) Had I not known the geography already, I probably would NOT have made the effort to cross the desert to get there for quite some time.

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[stormerne]

I used to play "large random continental" to get maximum city space until I realised that there was a 255 city limit!

Now I play with "large random archipelago" and my playing has improved enormously because I'm forced to get up off my butt early on.

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[Dogberry_Old]

50x80 random map... with 3-5 human players ... larger maps take too long to develop & they let one player get out ahead too easily.

 

[Archbob]

I play on "random map" although I do like my own salamanders and cards maps(they are in the download section of this site).

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[Captain Pugwash]

Well, I seem to be the odd one out here cos I much prefer to play on small map. The extra space on larger maps adds nothing to the game in my opinion.

200 cities is just a pain. 50 is enough for me.

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

Not just large, but custom-large. 100X100, Everything random--including barbarians. I like to be surprised; it seems more realistic that way. And I totally agree with Tim: playing the world, or Europe, or any map you already know feels like cheating. Why not just toggle "cheat" and reveal the map right at the outset?

 

[Valdy]

Good point about playing on the regular world map, but for what it's worth at least you also know that there are plenty of big land masses of which to expand on (for all players) and we all know the AI cheats anyway.

Playing on a real map adds a kind of real dimension to it - for instance if you sweep across North America or Africa destroying the Americans/Egyptians, that's kinda cool and you can imagine it's real life!
I do have friends, honest...

[This message has been edited by Valdy.com (edited April 21, 2001).]

 

[Coba|t]

I have to go with Valdy here.. I've played on large world map for years.. I know it's "cheating" but I like to feel that I am actually conquering the world

 

[Loaf Warden]

I like to play on the large World map, as well as Europe and Pacific and what-have-you, and devil take those who say it's cheating. I like a bit of historical accuracy in my games sometimes. Sometimes when I play a Civ with a large real-world counterpart, such as the Russians, or the Americans, I'll even put cities only where they actually have cities and I'll give them names that reflect where they are. Sometimes I don't. It all depends on my mood at the time. Sometimes I'll play on a random map just for a bit of extra challenge, but usually I play on the large World map. I don't consider that cheating, but if you do, hey, whom do I hurt by it anyway?

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

Ok, ok... maybe 'cheating' is too strong a word. But it does diminish the challenge considerably for me. And I agree that the computer-generated maps are generally inferior.

You guys like to pretend you're recreating history, whereas I find it more interesting to recreate what great leaders in history may have felt, discovering new lands, and even blundering sometimes. Like when you commit your armies to go north and find out too late that the enemy is to the west. That's the realism that I find most enjoyable, not the map itself.

 

[Loaf Warden]

But that can happen on a realistic map, too. The only things you know going into a premade map are geographic features and locations of capitals. What the other Civs do beyond that is up to them. I often find, for example, that the French put Paris in France and then all their other cities are off in Siberia somewhere. Even after I've taken enemy capitals, I can still get to the point where I'm practically tearing my hair out trying to find their final city, which is god-knows-where, and even if I do know the terrain just by virtue of the fact that I know about geography and history, there's nothing keeping the AI from deviating from that. They'll put cities wherever they 'feel' like putting them, and I still have to search for them, and I may sometimes end up sending my armies off to the wrong place as well.

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[Pedro]

Favourite world map? It depends on my mood. usually I choose between 80% sea or 80% land (that is archipelago or continents). The rest don't matter very much to me. I like playing on an accessible mao with few mountains&hills, but on the other hand, those terrain types can provide invaluable means of defense... Whether the climate is wet, dry, warm or cold doesn't matter to me. Usually choose moderate in both cases, as I can't choose between two extremes...

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[xeven_god_of_helsibahr]

Hey...Do you ever find yourself going past an island on a CPU map and naming it? I do it all the time. Why, just today I customed my Civ(I called them the 'mezzinarians') and named the peninsula the Mezzinarian Peninsula, and some islands and land masses Helsibahr, Hesh Arga, Droserious, Nembahr, Simbahria, Yophindor, Jesterio, Bahri, etc...

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