Bathtub Magellan

[Kepler63]

I have never built a ship. My only exploration was the area within land unit site range. However...

I won a war against Saladin and demanded his World Map in the settlement. Suddenly, a path around the entire globe (on Terra) lit up, and I got the message "You have circumnavigated the world. All your ships have a +1 range."

I assume Saladin was 99% of the way around the world but hadn't yet broken through to my seacoast. I had the one coastal square in my sightline. So, when I got his map, I "completed" the circumnavigation.

Pretty cute.

[alva]

Yup, that's how it works.

[Tokyo Sexwale]

It seems the AI don't go after this bonus. Usually when I build my first sea-faring unit I go straight east-west to try grab it as soon as possible, but the AI just seems to explore around randomly. (Trading maps is the best way, tho'.)

[Will9]

If your playing Warlords without patch 2.08 you get the circumnavigation bonus just knowing of every latitude line. Not for being first.