What is the ideal map setting for BNW?

[OmniPotent42]

I've been fiddling around with Continents and Small Continents, but it seems like Small Continents creates continents that are too snaky for warfare but Continents has almost no chokes or interesting terrain. Have you found any maps that would be a balance between the two?

 

[Hruberen]

I like Fractal, although you never know what you are going to get, it is always interesting.

My latest turned out to be 2 continents with 6 civs on each, but it was interesting because I started on a large isthmus next to an inland sea at the peninsula of one end of a large bay, after creating a canal to let trade out of the sea, think Constantinople, I had a wide variety of places to go, due to the bay setting.

I had a 4 continent desert start as Sweden next to Japan who attacked me early and I wiped off the face of the map, and I owned my entire continent, There was a continent to the northwestof mine with the Maya on it. Another continent that I couldnt find until Caravels with The Netherlands and The Iroquios on it, and finally a long snaky continent with a large bay to the east of mine with the remaining civs on it, AMerica was dominating that continent.

 

[OmniPotent42]

I like Fractal, although you never know what you are going to get, it is always interesting.

My latest turned out to be 2 continents with 6 civs on each, but it was interesting because I started on a large isthmus next to an inland sea at the peninsula of one end of a large bay, after creating a canal to let trade out of the sea, think Constantinople, I had a wide variety of places to go, due to the bay setting.

I had a 4 continent desert start as Sweden next to Japan who attacked me early and I wiped off the face of the map, and I owned my entire continent, There was a continent to the northwestof mine with the Maya on it. Another continent that I couldnt find until Caravels with The Netherlands and The Iroquios on it, and finally a long snaky continent with a large bay to the east of mine with the remaining civs on it, AMerica was dominating that continent.

Wait...you can create canals now?!!?!?!
What are the limits of canals and HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?

I presume they are made by Great Admirals, yes?

 

[Randall_Flagg]

Wait...you can create canals now?!!?!?!
What are the limits of canals and HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?

I presume they are made by Great Admirals, yes?

I think he means when a city sits between 2 water tiles, water units can pass through the city.

 

[OmniPotent42]

I think he means when a city sits between 2 water tiles, water units can pass through the city.

dang it.

 

[Hruberen]

I think he means when a city sits between 2 water tiles, water units can pass through the city.

Yes that is what I meant, they're still awesome now that trade routes are in the game, I never had the motive to build a canal before.

I think cities should get a gold bonus for trade routes that pass through them, kind of like the speculated Indonesian Ua where they could see all trade routes and got bonus gold for having cities near a trade route.

It seems kind of silly that those Indonesian traders can get to my isolated capital without me extorting the crap out of them from passing through Coimbra canal.

 

[Gyra Solune]

I personally like playing on Terra? I find the landforms are usually interesting enough, there's almost always an Australia-like subcontinent, and the New World presents decent late-game expansion options, made especially interesting with that Resettlement tenet.