Why do maps from huts show so little terrain?

[Styx]

There is something much more important finding a map.
Special if you play archipelo maps.
Often you can see the border of another isle.
Now you need only sailing and you can reach that isle.
Without the map you are not able to see it and can't reach even if you know it is there.
Then you have to build a city and expand your borders to make the borders visible.
A map could suck but it could be your gamewinner from scratch also.

[Shaka II]

Also, finding a map that has some missing pieces adds some mystery and realism to the game, since early maps weren't complete. Always some Terra Incognita on the map.

Perhaps the greatest mystery of Scottish or even European history is the people who once inhabited the lands north of Hadrian's Wall and as far north as the Shetlands. Who were these fiercely independent people? Where did the come from? Which language did they speak? What did they call themselves? We first hear of them in the third century from a Roman writer, who describes their fierceness and battle skills. The writer Eumenius, writes about them 200 years after Rome has been in Britain, and the name associated with the Pict is forever coined. To this day, we do not know if this is truly as in "pictus" (the Latin for "painted") or a Latin form of a native name. Because of the isolation of northern Scotland, history yields little, and the Roman Empire's expeditions into the north ended in little gains.

"We, the most distant dwellers upon the earth, the last of the free, have been shielded...by our remoteness and by the obscurity which has shrouded our name...Beyond us lies no nation, nothing but waves and rocks"

The above words by the Pictish chief Calgacus are recorded by the Roman enemy in the words of Tacitus and are a perfect example of the obscurity and legendary status held by the Picts almost 2,000 years ago.

[stormwriter]

Yeah, i know. I heard of someone getting ASTRONOMY from a goody hut! BUT, your guys' maps only show about 10 squares???

[Shogun Gunner]

must have been some space lovin' villagers

[bondetamp]

Originally posted by stormwriter
Yeah, i know. I heard of someone getting ASTRONOMY from a goody hut! BUT, your guys' maps only show about 10 squares???

Their telescopes were all pointed upwards.

(Or maybe it's like a civilization that manages to put people on the moon, but still thinks it's a good idea to teach Intelligent Design in school ...)

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Dis
I have never gotten a barbarian. Though the highest level I've played so far is Noble.

It doesn't seem like it's possible... at least not on Noble (which I'm playing)

[pauli]

on the plus side, i have yet to find a deserted village.

[Shogun Gunner]

i've gotten barbs a few times from goody huts. Although the probability is much, much lower compared to civ3

[Azuarc]

You don't find barbarians with scouts. You do with normal units.

On the issue of maps, a map picks a random direction and reveals most of the spaces in a small radius. It leaves a few gaps, but the more damning effect is when if reveals spaces in a direction you've already been, and you get nothing. Still, I don't find maps worthless...I'd just rather have a free tech.

[ghen]

The only way maps have been good to me is when they reveal another goodie hut.