Ringworld...

[Morganknight]

In earlier versions of Civ, I often liked using the option of decreasing the height of the map to a minimal number of plots and the width to a maximum number, creating a sort of ring. You could have multiple strong civilizations growing at various points along the ring, but to interract with them, you would have to conquer your neighbors to either side. I have been trying to find a way to duplicate this effect in CivIV, but with no luck so far. Can anyone offer a suggestion on how to adjust the width and or height of a standard map? Thanks.

 

[Refar]

Civ4WorldInfo.XML

		<WorldInfo>
			<Type>WORLDSIZE_STANDARD</Type>
			<Description>TXT_KEY_WORLD_STANDARD</Description>
			<Help>TXT_KEY_WORLD_STANDARD_HELP</Help>
			<iDefaultPlayers>7</iDefaultPlayers>
			<iUnitNameModifier>20</iUnitNameModifier>
			<iTargetNumCities>5</iTargetNumCities>
			<iNumFreeBuildingBonuses>5</iNumFreeBuildingBonuses>
			<iBuildingClassPrereqModifier>50</iBuildingClassPrereqModifier>
			<iMaxConscriptModifier>25</iMaxConscriptModifier>
			<iWarWearinessModifier>-10</iWarWearinessModifier>
[COLOR="Red"]			<iGridWidth>21</iGridWidth>
			<iGridHeight>13</iGridHeight>[/COLOR]
			<iTerrainGrainChange>0</iTerrainGrainChange>
			<iFeatureGrainChange>0</iFeatureGrainChange>
			<iResearchPercent>130</iResearchPercent>
			<iTradeProfitPercent>50</iTradeProfitPercent>
			<iDistanceMaintenancePercent>80</iDistanceMaintenancePercent>
			<iNumCitiesMaintenancePercent>30</iNumCitiesMaintenancePercent>
			<iColonyMaintenancePercent>45</iColonyMaintenancePercent>
			<iCorporationMaintenancePercent>100</iCorporationMaintenancePercent>
			<iNumCitiesAnarchyPercent>8</iNumCitiesAnarchyPercent>
			<iAdvancedStartPointsMod>100</iAdvancedStartPointsMod>
		</WorldInfo>

Here fot example the Standard map size.

Note that Grid size is multiplied by 4 to get the actuall plot count. So a standard map with a 21x13 grid has 84x52 plots.

I think however, that you will have to try a couple of different map scripts thou, to find one that gives you good results on a 'strip' like map. Pehaps some of the highly customizeable scripts from the forums would be your best guess. (Btw. i think SmartMap allows you to set the Gris Size on the fly.)

 

[Morganknight]

Thanks so much!