Map Type Descriptions? BTS

[Chicagophil]

Is there is a post or page that has the descriptions on what each map type is?

I see in BTS there are new map types.

I always play custom single player games, but Im never sure what each map type is.

Thanks

[LordGek]

Re: Map Type Descriptions? BTS

Originally posted by Chicagophil
Is there is a post or page that has the descriptions on what each map type is?

I see in BTS there are new map types.

I always play custom single player games, but Im never sure what each map type is.

Thanks

Closest to descriptions of new maps I've found:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=233114

[Arrian]

Good question. I was thinking the same thing on Saturday.

I like Hemispheres a lot.

-Arrian

[Jaybe]

I'm playing a random-number-of-continents hemispheres game now. It came out as 4 continents, and while the shape of the individual continents is to be commended, their arrangement is not. Two by two, like blocks, all of them wide with similar amounts of ocean between.

My previous (and first) game was a continents map with no options set. I ended up with 1 continent.

I suppose I'm going to take a sampling.

[sfeldkamp]

I like Medium and Small on a large or huge map. Big and Small is good too, but I prefer on smaller maps. I don't enjoy managing a huge number (or conquering a huge number of cities).

[Willem]

Originally posted by Jaybe
Two by two, like blocks, all of them wide with similar amounts of ocean between.

Yeah, I really don't like Hemispheres for that reason. The layout of the conitinents looks too mathematical and neatly ordered. I've really been enjoying Big & Small though.

[dconner]

Why is this, like, the only completely undocumented feature in the game? I remember one game where I chose "Balanced" thinking it was something like "default, some continents, some islands" or somesuch, and it's really nothing whatsoever like that (though it was an interesting change of pace from my usual games!)

"Medium and Small" is nice in my current game, though I have the odd circumstance of being on a long, narrow north-south continent that stretches from pole to pole - no sea passage at all. I'm debating whether or not to uproot some towns to build a "Panama Canal" - I've been fighting against it, but I think it's unavoidable.

Anyway, first time I can recall that in any Civ game - seems like most maps always guarantee a natural passage of *some* sort.

[Brizey]

Originally posted by dconner
Why is this, like, the only completely undocumented feature in the game? I remember one game where I chose "Balanced" thinking it was something like "default, some continents, some islands" or somesuch, and it's really nothing whatsoever like that (though it was an interesting change of pace from my usual games!)

"Medium and Small" is nice in my current game, though I have the odd circumstance of being on a long, narrow north-south continent that stretches from pole to pole - no sea passage at all. I'm debating whether or not to uproot some towns to build a "Panama Canal" - I've been fighting against it, but I think it's unavoidable.

Anyway, first time I can recall that in any Civ game - seems like most maps always guarantee a natural passage of *some* sort.

Can't forts be used (in a limited way) to make canals in BtS?

[LordGek]

Originally posted by dconner
Why is this, like, the only completely undocumented feature in the game? I remember one game where I chose "Balanced" thinking it was something like "default, some continents, some islands" or somesuch, and it's really nothing whatsoever like that (though it was an interesting change of pace from my usual games!)

"Medium and Small" is nice in my current game, though I have the odd circumstance of being on a long, narrow north-south continent that stretches from pole to pole - no sea passage at all. I'm debating whether or not to uproot some towns to build a "Panama Canal" - I've been fighting against it, but I think it's unavoidable.

Anyway, first time I can recall that in any Civ game - seems like most maps always guarantee a natural passage of *some* sort.

The fact that you now can get credit for circumnavigating the globe just by being the first to have map that shows a path all the way across the globe signifies they've probably taken out the "guarantee of a sea passage".

[dconner]

Originally posted by Brizey
Can't forts be used (in a limited way) to make canals in BtS?

Right, that's what I was talking about. There's a place on my continent only two spaces wide at its narrowest point, so I replaced a Town and a Lumber Mill with Forts there to make a "Panama Canal" style passage.

[Blaupanzer]

Can use forts on a three width point also, as fort - city - fort. Means the city is NOT coastal, but the passage works.

[dconner]

If you actually end up having a naval combat "in the fort", does it give you defensive bonuses?

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
Can use forts on a three width point also, as fort - city - fort. Means the city is NOT coastal, but the passage works.

I tried that, but it didn't work - unless the city is next to a lake.

[Willem]

Originally posted by LordGek


The fact that you now can get credit for circumnavigating the globe just by being the first to have map that shows a path all the way across the globe signifies they've probably taken out the "guarantee of a sea passage".

It's always been that way, ever since the game first came out.