which maps do you prefer

[gr8ful wes]

do you use the standard europe/world maps or do you prefer the random ones? since I am new I have been using the european ones for familiarity.

 

[Marlos]

Wes, generally I have played randomly-generated maps since the game came out. I find that if I know where the land is, the gameplay is affected (less exploration).

However, with CFC's bevy of scenarios available, I am hopeful of playing some. I am sure that I will be familiar with some of the maps there, but oh well.

 

[kmad]

I use random, world map is like cheating

 

[funxus]

I think one of the greater parts of the game is that you don't know how the surrounding looks like. Big or small island, good or bad terrain, any enemies nereby. So fixed maps makes the game less fun

 

[eyeball]

I prefer the random maps. I like exploring the world and not knowing where everything is.

 

[starlifter]

I prefer random maps. There are programs to have finer control of the randomness in teh download section .

 

[Ren]

I like to customize my random maps.

Off the top of my head I go Huge size, Large land mass, archipelago, Wet weather, normal climate (I think that's all..)

 

[Pongui]

Exploration's my favorite part of the game, and I like the challenges a random startup can throw at me.

I've had many disappointments with random maps in multiplayer, though. It's just no fun winning against someone when I know they were crippled and doomed by bad terrain, etc. from the start, and I can only derive so much sick pleasure being a pesky gnat against a robust enemy who has a giant, lush continent to bloat upon.

So I created a bunch of random maps, discarded the duds, and set all the start locations for game balance. They are random, but fair to all players. I hope people can use these maps in confidence.

Balanced Random Maps

I hope people will post their own random maps in the above thread, too, so I can play on them.

 

[Becka]

Customized random map or the largest world map.

 

[Narz]

Random maps are ok sometimes but I prefer to make my own. I use ones I haven't looked at in awhile which is good because then its basically all new to me. I have a few maps with balanced starts that are excellent for MP games.

Narz's Maps : http://www.narcity.com/fun/civ/civ2.html

- Narz

 

[Ace]

I usually use random maps. I have played on the world map, but it takes away much of the fun of exploring an "unknown" map. Besides, its always interesting with a new map and 6-10 "extra" advances to see how bad off your position really is.

 

[ferenginar]

mordan
radnom
damron
androm
RANDOM

At last!

Don't ask me how long that could have gone on for.

ferenginar

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

Random.

In the second game I ever played I used the medium or small world map I started on Iberian peninsula, then happened to go exploring into NW africa. I soon realized where I was and thought something along the lines of "I need to get a settler over to egypt so I can control access between eurasia and africa".

To this day it still feels like I cheated.

 

[Rowan]

Random....for all the reasons mentioned above.
[dance]

 

[Archer 007]

Random, for the reasons stated above.

 

[gr8ful wes]

what about scenarios?

 

[Dell19]

I like Random maps as I like the exploration and I don't really want to play scenarios...

 

[GenShwartzCough]

Random for all the previously stated reasons. I do like to customize it though. Young world, because I like the way that terrain types are layed out....large grasslands, deserts, mountain ranges, etc.

 

[Chieftess]

I liked the real world map. The thing I didn't like about random, is that I always seemed to get some sort of pagaea map, or islands with 1 large (and chaotic looking) continent. Islands (If I was lucky) were the best.

 

[Dell19]

There is a menu where you can customise some factors of a random map and this allows you to choose whether it is mostly islands, continents or in between.