About the World map

[Jonah5]

Thx Locutus!

[realpolitic]

The world map in ctp2 was a bit extreme... The sothern hemisphere may have beeen accurate, but it made it easy to win, start in Gemany, enslave Europe, take Asia, then America.... I prefer the balance of the 3C3 map. It's too easy to win by ignoring whole contients.

Traits are powerful in civ4, maybe they'll be almost as important as geography. The weakest quality of a nation in civ4 was its UU, as traits are more powerful in civ4, I intend to mod UUs to be more powerful, if need be. I'm also going to include lots of governments, since spiritual hasn't become more powerful than religious in civ3.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Locutus
... because they are farthest from civilisation and the culture of the Province. In other words, the Belgians are the most barbaric

But those north of the Rhine lived even farther of the Province.

[Freddz]

Played Rhye's version of world map for civ 3, and if he is involved I think it looks promising.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Bkeela
I felt alone at loving the Earth map. Infact, I think it is kind of pointless playing historical nations on a random map. SMAC suited such a context, but it is stupid with Civ.

Don't be silly, the Earth map is far too predictable with no surprises, no real exploration - you know where everything is...that is half the fun with random maps you've never seen before...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by vStauffenberg
old history it is, the commonwealth, the meagre institutional rest of a former great empire, meaningless, solely persisting for the purpose of keeping up appearances. it is already forgotten by many

Not by Mozambique and Cameroon, which decided their former colonial masters stank, and opted to join the (ex-British) Commonwealth.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MrFun


And good point about the Hellenistic despots -- they subjected Egypt to their rule before the Roman Empire, so we can say Egypt's bending over for others started with the Hellenistic despots.

You can say it started with the Hyksos- and there were also Nubian pharoahs- notably Piankhy.

[MrFun]

The ancient Egyptians kicked the Hyksos out though, once Egyptians used new technology introduced by the Hyksos against them -- the chariot and bronze weaponry.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MrFun
The ancient Egyptians kicked the Hyksos out though, once Egyptians used new technology introduced by the Hyksos against them -- the chariot and bronze weaponry.

I don't think that was the point though, was it ?

The Hyksos and Nubians established Egyptian dynasties- or dynasties based in Egypt, if you like.

And these were prior to the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty.

[MrFun]

good point