Terra (225x110)

[chewbs]

WOW.. This map looks great. I have been waiting for a world map this huge. I have 2 gigs of ram so far and I am getting 2 more soon. If you can build one bigger... awesome!!!

Nice detail!!

Keep up the good work!!

p.s. and thanx for making this for us..

 

[Flash1]

Genghis_Kai
I looked over the source map. I have a huge amount of rivers and a number of unmarked lakes. But this is a partial list of items I have on the source maps:

AFRICA: Lake Chad, Lake Nyasa, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria. Landmark Mountains: Mt. Kilimanjaro.

ASIA: Aral Sea, Lake Baikal, Lake Balkhass and Special landmark mountains: K2 and Mt Everest.

I hope this helps.

Tyranausaurus,
Thank you for your kind words. I never felt a civ earth map was "big" enough. After all we are not building cities per se but metropolitan areas. I'm glad you will have a use for it.

Chewbs,
Thank you for looking forward to it. If this map is a success and my machine will play it, then I will work on an even bigger map if there is a demand for it.

 

[C-Kompii]

Even though I think this base map is a real beauty(!!), I feel I have to stress that the land surface of Ireland (32477 square miles) is more than fives times that of Hawaii (6423 sq. miles), yet both get 4 squares. Poor Irish Please add the 3 sea squares directly west of current Ireland to it. I'm sure that will make them feel better

Great map looking map so far, keep up the good work. Just a few suggestions. Taiwan is actually more than twice the size of Haiwaii at 13,823 sq. miles but only has 2 tiles on the map compared to 4 for Haiwaii. Although I don't mind Haiwaii being bigger than it is realistically due to its strategical & geographical importance.

I think islands from Japan, Taiwan and even the Korea peninsula could be made slightly larger also for a more realistic game play, since they are the developed countries in Asia (other than Singapore) thus a few extra tiles of land and/or placement of resources later could help develop stronger cities in the area.

-G'day-

 

[Flash1]

C-Kompii,
Although I'm looking to make the map as accurate as possible there are certain sacrifices that come into play. The most accurate part of the map is the continents. The Islands will almost always be off. As a map gets bigger obviously the map becomes more "accurate".

My source maps are a mercator projection that come from an atlas that I scanned. Unfortunately these are the same problems I had with my Maximum-sized civ3 map. There will always be a conflict with "realism", map projection, playability and compromise.

The only thing I can say at this point is wait until it is done and it can be tweaked later. The squares are what they are. If I stayed to exact scale I would loose most of the pacific. Unfortunately, Taiwan is one island and Hawaii is seven.

I know it stinks, but until Firaxis can free more memory I'm not sure I'll be able to do a bigger map. This one will just have to be tested a lot first to see if it crashes late game. It is after all 200 x 100.

Thanks for the comments. All I ask is patients.

 

[Tyranausaurus]

Flash, your map will be fine, I would look forward to bigger maps however! Just focus on this map for now, I would be more than willing to happily help you with placing native barbarian groups, resources and other materials. If you want some help you can just PM me . It would be nice if you would give us a rough release date -that's if possible-. Keep working on your cartography job!

 

[Tyranausaurus]

This is just a blank post of mine, sorry, just to keep the thread in bold. I'm fearing this gr8 thread would be lost under the pile of older ones. Hey Flash any news or something? I would really love to see your map -even if you release the raw version of it-!

 

[hybrid5]

damm i have bee away for a while . still looking good .. lots of progress since i have been gone ..

nice map . .. can;t wait to play on it ..

Thanks

 

[Flash1]

Update,
Almost done with North America. I did some minor terrain tweaking. There are a LOT of rivers. I'll post a pic soon.

Sorry guys I thought I would be farther along but I can't shake this cold. Been runnig a constant fever.

Tyranausaurus,
Thanks for the kind words.

Hybrid5,
I think you will like the new pics I'll post soon.

 

[Flash1]

I need to know some information about what civ leaders to choose:

American: Roosevelt or Washington;
Chinese: Mao Zedong or Qin She Huang;
English: Elizabeth or Victoria;
French: Louis XIV or Napoleon;
German: Bismarck or Frederick;
Indian: Asoka or Gandhi;
Mongolian: Genghis Khan or Kublai Khan;
Russian: Catherine or Peter.

And why?

 

[Gnostic78]

Hey Flash,

First off, I am really eager to play this map! It looks fabulous!

Secondly, civ leaders can easily be changed within the WBS via XML. So, if a person downloads your map, but would rather have one leader over another, he or she can simply change that on their own.

My only suggestion is to make sure Catherine is included, since her attributes are great, and having a wider selection of powerful women represented is always good, ahem, at least in my humble opinion. But perhaps I'm a bit biased.....

Hope that helps, and good luck with the project!

 

[Flash1]

This is the first Preview of North America.
I still need to add the desert areas. And deside how I want the mountains tp run. In the meantime hills are standing in. And the foests need to be tweaked.

 

[Flash1]

Junuxx,
In another thread, I think it was you that listed a few codes. One of the codes was a random resource generator and I can't remember the other one.

Can you please list them here and how to use them?

 

[Tyranausaurus]

Looking nice Flash, however you should give Nova Scotia of Canada some more significancy, as I think that we should be able to have a decent Halifax.
Could you post a Screenshot of Asia minor and Arabia -would be nice- I know it is still raw but I would like to see how many squares there are.
GR8! Keep Going

 

[Flash1]

Tyranausaurus,
I understand, I'm not happy with Nova Scotia either. I'll change it. I'll post the Middle East Screen shot tonight for you.

 

[Flash1]

T-Rex
This is your Pre-view.

 

[Tyranausaurus]

Nice, , you might wanna re-consider the placement of the rivers. -I'm putting too much stress on you, I know -. I just want your map to be of optimum quality!

 

[Flash1]

T-Rex,
I just follow my source maps and the grid on top, from there I can only do the best I can.... or I can let you finish the map.

 

[chewbs]

WOW... the map looks awesome... I am like a kid waiting for christmas day...

keep up the great work...

 

[Tyranausaurus]

T-Rex,
I can only do the best I can.... or I can let you finish the map.

Would take the honor of helping! If you could PM me your current stage of the map I can Improve the areas I know. . Please if you would I will be gracious .

 

[Flash1]

T-Rex,
Okay. I really need a developer's forum space.
Let me plot the rivers and lakes. Lord Parkin (aka Emperor) is going to help too. So, I'll let him concentrate on Asia and the South Pacific since he is from New Zealand.

What part of the world do you want?