weird maps

[Janne]

Hey,

I my current game I came across another weird map, every once in a while the map generator produces unusual maps. This time on a small continent map, I was on a continent with France and the Ottos and the other 3 civs (Incas, Siam and Darius) each had a continent of their own...not sure if I like it though as there is much less chance of them going to DoW each other but on the other hand, there will be no run-away civ, well, apart from me...

Other weird maps I had in the past included maps with a resource missing...last game I played there was no cotton to be found in the whole wide world or I had a game completely without coal. But I guess something like that only ever happens on small maps.

What are the weirdest maps you have had?

 

[gozpel]

I spawned on a continent and was all by myself, except for 2 CS, on Immortal. I built 6 cities, but had to take out one CS to make my country look good.

2 turns later I meat China and they denounce me the turn later.

She had a FULL continent together with Japan, only 3 cities though, but neither ever expanded in the early game.
Find the other continent, same thing here, 3 civs with 3 cities.

Then, wars from the left and the right, but noone attacked me. Cruisecontrol to culturewin.

The AI is just too unpredictable.

Or too predicable?

 

[Monthar]

I've had continents maps where I was stuck on the smallest continent with all but two of the civs. Those two got the large continent with most of the CSs. This was on a standard sized map with all settings on their defaults.

 

[Mods]

I spawned on a continent and was all by myself, except for 2 CS, on Immortal. I built 6 cities, but had to take out one CS to make my country look good.

2 turns later I meat China and they denounce me the turn later.

She had a FULL continent together with Japan, only 3 cities though, but neither ever expanded in the early game.
Find the other continent, same thing here, 3 civs with 3 cities.

Then, wars from the left and the right, but noone attacked me. Cruisecontrol to culturewin.

The AI is just too unpredictable.

Or too predicable?

Culture win with 6 cities?

 

[noncognosco]

I had a Continents Plus map once where I shared a continent with one other civ, there were about 4 other civs on the other continent and all of the CS were on an archipelago of little islands between the continents. I didn't meet my first CS until the Renaissance.

 

[M_Sparkle]

Standard pangea plus as siam... tried one city challenge was inland and by turn 140 had meet one city state but had explored the whole world. When I got satalietes and got the world map all the cs where on an island... what a waste for siam lol

 

[HammerandSickle]

I once played on a huge pangea map. It was virtually two mega-continents that were linked by a ridiculously long, thin land bridge and an enormous sea in between.

The problem was that the huge sea was lined by ice in the north and the land bridge in the south. Thus the entire world was, to some extent, landlocked.
The world was very hard to navigate.

 

[Peets]

Culture win with 6 cities?

Yes, most people think you need max 3 but it can be easily done with 6 too.

 

[dubrown]

The most ridicolous map I've ever played was a huge highland map with the ranges option. I remember thinking that there was very few CS that I'd met compared to what there should be and that it was fairly crowded for a huge map The explanation came with satelites, more than a third of the map was completely blocked of by mountains, no path by land or water.

It was silly really, pure luck no AI civ or myself spammed on "the wrong side".

 

[CYZ]

Not sure wheter it was weird or awesome but when playing a Highlands map with all settings on random I got a map where every CIV and CS had their own valley. The exception was me as I shared my valley with Askia whom I killed off quickly.

Really strange. Everything was accesible but there were only one or two passage ways which were one tile in size. Sometimes that tile was a lake as well.

 

[thadian]

ive had starts where i displaced city state settlers.

also, ive had pangaea games (again a lot of them) where there is this huge wall of city states in the middle of the map. once i had a pangaea where every civ was on the outside and the CS's were bundled around the middle.

 

[noncognosco]

City states definitely tend to bunch together for some reason. I think it would be better if they were more spread out.

 

[bronzeager]

definitely have had maps without any aluminum, and possibly without coal. very frustrating

 

[Peets]

definitely have had maps without any aluminum, and possibly without coal. very frustrating

I like that, makes the game different and more challenging
Though sometimes not for my own benefit

 

[rridgway]

I like that, makes the game different and more challenging
Though sometimes not for my own benefit

I've been in a similar position to him, except much more devastating. Except for one tile, there wasn't any iron on my continent once.

 

[Raiki]

That seems to happen to me in almost every game I play. There's only ever like 4 Iron in the whole world, and I'll invariably have to fight my way through Bismark to get it. No mean feat when you consider that I need to crush his swords and seige (and his gorram Landsknecht) with crossbows, pikes and horses.


~R~

 

[declanlee]

I once had a map that has no silver.

 

[HammerandSickle]

There was once a map with only three cotton resources, all sitting back to back on another continent.

 

[sav]

I had a highlands map last week where I took over the eastern half, thought there was a lack of city states, then when I discovered satellites saw that 10 of the 12 city states were lined up along the western edge of the map. Weeeird.

 

[ElWanderer]

My current map is weird. Huge continents; I have two neighbours that it took a hundred turns to meet as our continent is divided into four by impassable mountains. Added to that, my capital is coastal but can't build warships - I presume this is because the icepack is in the way, despite my opening up of a navigable route by the location of my second city.