FenrisWolf456
Chieftain
So for my Phoenicia I've been using the alternate earth map generation from YNAEP which I hadn't really used before and I've gotten a somewhat recognizable if rather distorted map of Earth. And since we now have disasters in the game it got me to thinking: What if we're thinking about things wrong ... it's not a retelling of our history, the first rise of mankind. It's a telling of the rise of the surviving empires of a previously devastated Earth.
From my game, the western coast of Africa is just gone. Europe and eastern Siberia are shattered into loose island groups. New land and islands have been pushed up in the south Pacific while Australia itself is half submerged. California and the North American west coast is also gone, perhaps hit by that prophetic 'Big One', and the rest of the area that was once the United States is desert, absolute desert from coast to coast.
And now the scattered surviving civilizations have crawled back from the brink of the second Stone Age, from the US and Brazil who have managed to maintain their previous cultural focus, to the Aztec and Sumerians who had reverted back to the 'old ways', and now all exist together at the same time to attempt to rebuild their empires to their former glories.
It's added a fun dimension to the game for me and does keep me wondering just what happened to the Earth to produce the map I now have. Was it severe climate change? Perhaps a meteor impact or two? Full scale nuclear war with even more advanced weapons? And just what happened to have Mexico City and Cardiff move to Siberia between then and now? (The only real oddity in the map generation. Everyone else has spawned relatively where they would on a regular Earth, if slightly shifted due to the new map, such as the US now inhabiting what would be Canada, and Japan on island masses more south than east of the Asian continent. But then there's Mexico City and Cardiff just north of Mongolia/China. All I can imagine are refugees from those area which are pretty much gone from the map.)
So I think I'll give this map generation a couple more goes to see some other devastated Earth scenarios.
From my game, the western coast of Africa is just gone. Europe and eastern Siberia are shattered into loose island groups. New land and islands have been pushed up in the south Pacific while Australia itself is half submerged. California and the North American west coast is also gone, perhaps hit by that prophetic 'Big One', and the rest of the area that was once the United States is desert, absolute desert from coast to coast.
And now the scattered surviving civilizations have crawled back from the brink of the second Stone Age, from the US and Brazil who have managed to maintain their previous cultural focus, to the Aztec and Sumerians who had reverted back to the 'old ways', and now all exist together at the same time to attempt to rebuild their empires to their former glories.
It's added a fun dimension to the game for me and does keep me wondering just what happened to the Earth to produce the map I now have. Was it severe climate change? Perhaps a meteor impact or two? Full scale nuclear war with even more advanced weapons? And just what happened to have Mexico City and Cardiff move to Siberia between then and now? (The only real oddity in the map generation. Everyone else has spawned relatively where they would on a regular Earth, if slightly shifted due to the new map, such as the US now inhabiting what would be Canada, and Japan on island masses more south than east of the Asian continent. But then there's Mexico City and Cardiff just north of Mongolia/China. All I can imagine are refugees from those area which are pretty much gone from the map.)
So I think I'll give this map generation a couple more goes to see some other devastated Earth scenarios.
