YAMP (yet another map poll)

[RandyN]

Just discovered Civ 5 a little while ago and I'm hooked. Also, recently discovered Civ Fanatics forum and am also impressed with the quality of content and how willing people are to help one another (without much of the sniping you find on other forums).

There are over 40 maps if you have all of the DLC and expansions, so I had to leave a few out (sorry if I missed one of your favorites).

Please select your favorite map. You can select multiple items.

 

[digrosz]

Definately continents (plus) for me. It just feels realistic. Start with two to four others, and when you get advanced enough to cross oceans you meet the rest.
Earth also is kinda neat.

 

[digrosz]

Definately continents (plus) for me. It just feels realistic. Start with two to four others, and when you get advanced enough to cross oceans you meet the rest.
Earth also is kinda neat.

 

[Civking5]

I voted fractal. But I can also recommend trying earth, tilted axes and ice age. These maps provides some unique experiences in your gameplay.

 

[digrosz]

I don't know why that got doubled...?

 

[MerchantCo]

I love the "alternate history" feel.

 

[feketebirka]

perfect world (mod)

 

[AW Arcaeca]

I said continents, continents plus and fractal.

 

[Catan_Settler]

I love earth, I just wish it was playable on smaller maps. If you play on small size you pretty much have to remove the city states or close a couple player slots if you want there to be room for settlers.

 

[DJMcCar12]

I'm a big fan of Archipelago but that's mostly because naval games are awesome.

 

[Hyperion529]

i think i played most games on Continents plus/Pangea plus. i also like the occasional game on Sandstorm or TSL maps and have started using Fractal recently.

 

[cpm4001]

Continents Plus, Earth, Europe, Fractal, Great Plains/Great Plains Plus, Large Islands and Pangaea/Pangaea Plus are my favorite "Vanilla" maps.
I also love TSL Earth maps.

 

[tedoll78]

I voted Pangea and Other (specifically, a PerfectWorld3 script modded to generate a map where ~63% of the map is land).

 

[ahawk]

Continents, Pangea, and Pangea Plus:

All 3 types minimize the amount of water that AI land units have to embark over, which the AI is notoriously bad at as the AI often allows large numbers of units to be attacked from my ranged units on shore rather than using naval its units to provide cover. Yet all 3 types still include enough water.

Continents is probably the most fair map to the AIs: Spain, Indonesia, and naval civs can use their uniques, while land civs can use theirs fairly well insofar as they can attack whoever is on their continent, at least, without having to embark.

Pangea is the best for avoiding silly embarked AI units getting slaughtered, and still allows some coast, but on Pangea I start to see some naval AIs (England) rush Great Lighthouse when they really won't need it (often because Attila or Genghis Khan is knocking on the door with land forces).

Pangea Plus is nice to open up extra space when playing Pangea. Since BNW, it seems the AI is more apt to settle much further afield than before, often putting cities in areas where I'd settle just my third city. On Pangea Plus, I have a little more room with the CSes either on the fringe of the Pangea or on islands just off of it, and the problem isn't so bad. I don't mind conquering for cities early on in most cases (at least on Emperor and Immortal...), but in BNW it seems that AIs are settling in silly places now, and I'd rather not have to raze or puppet just to get my third (sometimes, second) city up. Forth city, okay, especially since by then my borders should be near theirs anyways. But taking my third city from an AI that settled 15 tiles from it's closest border is absurd. And Pangea Plus allows me to just settle somewhere else when this happens in BNW.

 

[vibe96]

Pangea and tiny islands.

 

[MerchantCo]

I got a huge tech advantage, and by 1150 AD, I was building the Big Ben. By 1400 AD, I found a beautiful, humongous continent off Pangea. So I bought fifteen settlers, and settled the whole continent. I purchased every tile, improved every tile, and defended the continent beautifully. By about 1800 AD, the continent was perfect. So while most civilizations were fighting with each other on the mainland, I got perfect isolation with most of my cities on another continent.

That's why I love Pangea! Sometimes you'll find a very large island/small continent off the mainland.

 

[iamdanno]

Tectonics, because of the mountains becoming strategic obstacles.

 

[Strategist83]

Shuffle, of course. Can't believe you left that out of the poll. No, I'm not even going to explain what it is; I want you to load the game up and see so you can play your next game on Shuffle.

 

[George Abitbol]

Definately continents (plus) for me. It just feels realistic. Start with two to four others, and when you get advanced enough to cross oceans you meet the rest.
Earth also is kinda neat.

You meet the rest, or rather the rest orf the rest, because George Washington already invaded all the continent by himself, and ask you "I trust you're a friend of liberty".
It was the case in G&K, I don't know in BNW..

I don't like too much continents+ the CS locations annoys me.

 

[TreYs]

I enjoy playing on Donut. I usually get very large games with several cities with this map while still having that Pangaea feel to it.

Great Plains is also good, for the opposite reason. Having players very close to one another makes for some very interesting war scenarios.

Haven't tried Earth yet, but looking forward to playing it. Would you recommend playing on Standard or Epic for the best experience?

I also enjoy the Mediterranean map. It's quite a challenging map, what with the barbarians and limited access to trade.