madscientist
RPC Supergenius
I have been on hemispheres or Big/Small most games. You all make me start thinking about those fractal maps again though. Voted Hemispheres.
I play Archipelago [Large / Huge, Low Sea, Snaky Continents] the most. Despite being Archi those settings give a lot of land, and create a lot of interesting chokepoints and places for 'Panama Canal Cities' which I find make naval stuff more exciting. To me it plays how B&S was probably meant to play but doesn't (IMHO).
I agree.The best maps i've had lately have definitely been on Archipelago, low sea, snakey continents.Although i normally play on standard size.
These settings give some really interesting maps with varied landmasses/continents.
I really hate normal Archipelago thou' and medium and small, anything with loads of really tiny islands.
I guess I've never paid much attention to details so...what exactly is the difference between continents and hemispheres? I've played both many times before, and never really thought about it until now.
My least favorite is probably pangaea because I like navies to matter,
^^. Yep.
Imo, the absolute hardest game (with normal conditions..not raging barbs, always war, agg AI, etc) to play would be the largest possible map, with the lowest amount of water, on one single land mass and limit the human to a conquest or domination victory while the AI's had all victories enabled, on Deity (GW not allowed of course).