here's a modified map:
- small changes in topography everywhere
- more resources, especially in us / south america / afrika.
- buffed europe and north america. The land might look crazy but needed to match India/China.
- north america and parts of south america have european resources (cattle, truffles, horses) and when fully utilized can be very strong.
- more food in china/india.
- less coast more ocean in low population / low interaction areas (Africa, australia). More coast in high interaction / high pop areas (bay biscay , east north american coast)
- lots of atolls for productive islands (aegean, japan home islands, carribean)
- more food and better topology in iran
- copper in cyprus
- more food and resources in egypt
- more desert in MENA
- more desert in sahara
- more desert in gobi
- buffed food in mexico and california
- added copper in sweden + shrinked norway
- urals have more mineral resources
- russia has more fur and buffed overall.
- more desert in australia
- manchuria has more mineral resources but it is harder to access (mountains, marshes)
- added marshes in belarus and finland
- various tiny touches.
- indonesia has more food and spices.
- philippines topography work
- mexico topography work
- quebec topography work
- alaska topography work
- greece/cyprus/crete topography work
- rocky mountains topography work
- hawaii rework
- colombia rework
- siberia re-arrenged some resources
- added pearls to map
- more jungle in jungle regions (central america, south america, africa, indonesia, indochina). Now jungle areas are close to impassable until Biology (so no more paths through them).
- added missing rivers in spain, france, thailand, us, uk, russia, etc (not perfect but at least better than nothing)
- moved socotra in a better position
- modified maghreb a bit.
- modified azores / canaries
- other
railroading:
- added natural wonders where missing (north america, kailash helps religion in india, gibraltar helps spain tech faster to colonize)
- added uluru near arabia to help them spawn islam. Fits in on the map in terms of aesthetics.
- added duplicated sri pada near lyon/naples(as vesuvius) to help spawn catholicism/protestantism in italy/spain/germany
- added duplicated sri pada in china to spawn a religion.
- added duplicated mount kailash as mount athos to help spawn orthodoxy in balkans and anatolia
Notes:
india, china, rome, arabia can be really powerful and run ahead if not checked.
Maybe somebody finds this useful. Makes the game more enjoyable for me (i play with tech rate at 50%, easy to modify).
Cheers.