[TSL] Yet (not) Another Earth Maps Pack

I can confirm that Gedemon. I actually though I remembered wrong but today i fired up a couple of games, on giant, with several civs close to CS´s and yes, your suspicion is right.
Furthermore I belive the starting location for Paris, Delhi, Thebes, Sukothai could be better. Thebes is now placed where roughly Abydos was. Should be placed 1 tile east and then 1 tile south east. Thebes is located south of the Nile. Delhi should be oe tile more north, atleast. Sukothai atleast one tile south, but i would rather place it along the coast (Bangkok has a seaport although its up-river a little distance) I know Sukothai is not Bangkok but was located some 2 hrs drive north of central Bangkok. My suggested move of Paris is debatable but its more for balance reasons I suggest it be moved one tile south.
If u need any help with tideous map changes I can do it for u. Did a lot of modding for CiV II but lost interest with III, started again with IV but TotalWar took all my time. Just let me know.

 

thx 4 the changes, looking forward playing it =)

Re: Paris. Its very close to London AND Brussels. I just felt it was cramped and wanted more landproduction for the city. What do u think?

Re: Egypt. Placing a couple of more oasises west of the nile is needed since they had a very strong presence in oasises like Bahanya, Dahkla, Kharga, Farafra, Hiwa etc. Another thing I miss in Egypt is that great "bend" the Nile does in Nubia if you know what I mean? I can mark these things on the map and send it to you if you like. I also feel that it would be great to make it impossible to found a city on a desert tile. This will stop the spamming of Askia and Egypt in the Saharas. Other areas on the globe will benefit from this also. Is it possible?

Have a nice day and thank you for your great job. I only play historical maps so this is greatly appreciated.

 

I have a problem, not sure if it's in all mods or just this, but I am unable to save the game. I only have options to quit or edit options.

 

Hey, my english is not so good.

But I want to ask if anyone else are having game crash with giant earth map before the game really start(?????)

Huge map started well, but giant map chashes. I hope find a solution. Thanks anyway. =]

 

Hi Mordredis!

try again, this happens to me some times too, but its not this Mod's fault, it may be caused by low system resources, I dont know, but it doesnt happen all the time.

When it happens to me when starting a new game, it crashes after loading the map, but before I can start playing. I launch the game again and load the initial autosave, and it works, so I dont have to start a new game again because it made an autosave before it crashed

hope you understood and your case is identical to mine

 

Thank you Madeira. But I think it is a especific problem with the map (Giant Earth). It is like Civlization 4 and the giant earth map: there was a time that the game crashed before it started.

I think maybe is a bug in some file.

Maybe a problem with the sound, cause is just "the guy" start the speack about the nation, the game chashes...

 

uhmmm.;... ok... I still think it is not a pc problem, cause I have BTS and play the last version of GEM, and its goes fine.

I will play the huge map you made. Is it bigger than the vanilla world map??

Thank a lot for the answers. I need CIV V needs a expansion quickly, cause neither the hotseat they put in the game... =[

Sorry about english.

 

for me the giant map still works well at 270 will continue and see how long that will last

 

Yes, better playtest the new Paris location first. I can do the testing for you if you have no time.
If no founding restriction can be implemented maybee take away the resources from the desert? The AI seem pretty keen on settling near resources even if the town will have a hard time developing so this might work. I feel it would be more realistic if expansion of Egypt and Songhai should take place along coasts and rivers, fertile lands etc. Maybee even put in some more spawning places of barbarians in these desert regions will hamper this behaviour to?
The marked map you wanted is just freehanded on top of a cut out of the actual giant map but it contains most of the historical oasises (red) of Egypt and a new strech of the Nile (light blue) where both the west and east branches of the delta and that big Nubian curve of it is displayed better.

Good luck and let me know if you need any help. Have a great weekend.

 

Cool! Going to check that new version and continue working on my CSs.
And going to fetch that new RED version as well

 

Found a way to help me find exact starting locations I wanted, by activating cheat mode, and possibly in combination with a mod I have installed, I get grid coordinates on mouseover.

So I completed my city states sub-mod, the files are attached if anyone wants to try them, unzip inside the XML folder of this mod's folder. Then select CS with TSL only in the mod options.

Hope it works, if not me and Gedemon will figure it out

PS. This is for Giant map only, im not going to bother doing start locations for the smaller ones.

 

Playtested all changes (v5) today. Very good, thx. Found out that Karakorum (Mongols) starting city probably should be 1 if not 2 tiles due west and if u look at a map there is an important river to there that flows towards the Bajkal lake. I can draw it all on a map and post it here if you want?! Another thing is mountains, especially the snow capped ones. I dont know where you drew the line, 4000 mtrs? but it seems a bit strange that the Himalayas, and many other places, are not littered with snow capped mountains. From a production point of view not much production is going on above 2000 mtrs irl. In earlier CiV games I mapped snow above 4000 and used the subsidary (brown) mountain between 2-4000 mtrs and the hill up to 2000. Ofcourse some parts must be lower to allow passage throgh passes etc since all mount.tiles wont allow that. Let me know what you think and if you need help with this.

 

Small update:

Anshan was too close to Persepolis, moved south. Seoul is back to its original location in the coast.

 

Hey,

Great mod.

I tried to play with the Vikings mod and the Mongolian Mod, but the game crash. When I removed them the game worked fine. Maybe considering at least the Vikings as part of the mod.

Thanks