Strange Map

[DrewBledsoe]

This was huge / shuffle map, Pangea, but the strangest I think I've ever had..If you notice, the N and S Oceans and completely isolated, the land wraps the world completely in one continuous narrowish band.

I kinda guessed something was up, when I got the message, Louis had circumnavigated the globe, in 1195BC!





Anyone else had anything this unusual?

 

[Slip de Garcon]

Yes, I had something similar very recently.

My western border was a narrow strip of land with impassable mountains across it. It transpired that the land was a single continent like yours, so to walk to the other side of this mountain range, you had to walk round the world.

I found out when I sent a work boat out from a city on the north coast to somewhere on the south (wqithout knowing how this would happen), and it just travelled up and down the northern coast, but a little further each time.

 

[Codeman]

that's cool. i cann't say i've had anything like that, not yet anyway.

 

[Truronian]

I wonder if you could circumnavigate on land?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I wonder if you could circumnavigate on land?

You could. You just need to go around the world, doesn't matter if on land or sea, but usually it is by sea.

 

[karlhegna]

Ya, easier to go on sea

 

[Pantastic]

FYI, you can get early circumnavigation a lot if you play archipelago with low sea levels. Very often there's a path somewhere that will let you get all the way around the world, though usually you need writing (for open borders) to do it.

 

[naterator]

i've got this kind of map a few times on fractal. i was quite puzzled when tokugawa circumnavigated the globe while i was researching construction.

 

[jimbob27]

I've had a couple of fractal maps turn out like this.

One was a fantastic game. After my early wars, I made friends with both of the civs either side of me. After that I just acted like a complete jerk to all the other civs.... knowing my land was totally unreachable without them destroying one of my friends first.

 

[CHRISROOM]

what does the height of the sea level do?

 

[jimbob27]

It dictates the amount of land there is. High sea level means theres not much land, low means theres lots of land. I always put it on low, because the generator always makes too much sea.

 

[Junuxx]

It also determines the distance between landmasses

 

[Rex Tyrannus]

That looks like a fun map to play. Looks like Mongolia has a choke point on the entire world.

 

[Chieftess]

I love those kinds of landmasses (I had one just like it back in Civ3, but it looked more like a crown - or, atleast an Egyptian 'crown' with a snake on top).

 

[Brancaleone]

Im playing one map where the main continent is shaped like an X - and you can circunavigate from east-west and north-south.. (damn my english). I never saw that before in Civ, i send a scout all the way to the north and he got back to my empire from the south! Is this even realistic?

 

[VladTepes]

That looks like a fun map to play. Looks like Mongolia has a choke point on the entire world.

Looks like Ning-hsia acted as a Thermopylae...next to Thermopylae...against the Greeks.

 

[Zombie69]

Only in the Fantasy Realm map type does the map wrap both East-West and North-South. It's realistic if the planet is shaped like a donut.

To the OP : that's a cool map, i didn't think it was possible. Kind of stupid to circumnavigate without navigating!

 

[paulthebug]

I am currently playing a huge map, a perfect triangle shape that touches both the north and south pole.

 

[CHRISROOM]

I've gotten a round map with no water. AT ALL. No rivers, lates, oasises, oceans, NOTHING!!! Man, I was gettin' poor after awhile.

 

[Instant_Cereal]

what does the height of the sea level do?

Higher sea level means the ice caps are smaller, thus more melted ice which leads to more, or higher, water. Lower sea level means the ice caps are larger, and basically the opposite of what I said above.

Thing that bugs me about low sea level is the way some people in multiplayer think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and use it for a lot of games, assuming there'll be more land to settle. In my opinion, it just creates even more useless tundra, ice, and snow. I personally stick with medium sea level for most maps except for the occasional archipelago map with low sea level.