What are your favorite map settings?

[faded glory]

Cold,
High Sea Level
Archipelgo.


Resources are scarce and it gives the early year a adventurous feel to it, as you struggle just to find suitable land in the tundra/mountains for your people.

[Wittlich]

I guess I've never been that sadistic to even try a cold map. But I guess that it would prove an intresting game...

For the most part, I chicken-out and always go for a Temporate climate with high sea levels...I vary on the land-type selections.

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Wittlich
I guess I've never been that sadistic to even try a cold map. But I guess that it would prove an intresting game...

Indeed it does. The AI QUICKLY snatches up every green spot possible. And when sea level is high, there just isnt that much too go around so you get some crazy conflicts on continents. Another thing is colonial expansions are usually done on far flung Icebergs, and extremely difficult to pacify and protect.

Usually I will Have 10 players on a Large map. Bye 1000 BC border conflicts/disputes erupt everywhere due to land and resource problems. AI is cool like that.

Try it, promise you will love it. If you like Challenges anyway

[Reiko]

I usually play the earth 18 civs map.

[Fleme]

Standard Size Pangaea, Normal Climate, Natural Shoreline, 10 Enemy Civs.

I do play the occasional Hemispheres, Terra or Continents too, but I've never made changes in the climate or anything like that, there's plenty of tundra, ice, desert and jungle to begin with.

[Supr49er]

Large
Hemispheres
Temperate
Natural shorelines
High sealevels

[Thedrin]

18 civs,
Huge,
3 land masses,
9 continents,
Evenly distributed continents,
Normal continent placement,
No overseas trade before astronomy,
65% ocean,
Rougher coastlines,
Normal hills,
Normal peaks,
All mountain ranges,
Temperate,
Normal desert,
Normal plains,
Normal jungle,
Normal forest,
Normal flood plains,
Custom resource options.

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[Leo-T]

I like Huge temperate maps, high sea level, archipelago, on marathon with 8 starting civs (you end up with LOTS more due to colonies), and balanced resources.

One thing I've found on this type game even with balanced resources is that oil is SCARCE! The game I'm in now has only 1 oil resource on land, and only 4 at sea. Things can get pretty nasty if you don't have one. (I have one of the sea oils, so I pushed to get plastics).

Leo

[One_more_turn]

Standard Pangea or Large Hemisphere

[Theben]

Big n small

[Unimatrix11]

Smart Map, 100X48, 80% Water, 8 civs, epic. All else set to standard. No tech brockering, all other rules standard. Smart maps are dry and sometimes desert next to river is just desert.

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Leo-T
I like Huge temperate maps, high sea level, archipelago, on marathon with 8 starting civs (you end up with LOTS more due to colonies), and balanced resources.

One thing I've found on this type game even with balanced resources is that oil is SCARCE! The game I'm in now has only 1 oil resource on land, and only 4 at sea. Things can get pretty nasty if you don't have one. (I have one of the sea oils, so I pushed to get plastics).

Leo

Can you elaborate on balanced? Does that mean 1 thing for eveybody?


FG

[Thedrin]

I believe it means that every civ is guaranteed to have one of each of [certain specific] strategic resources within a certain distance of its starting spot.