Best Worlds for Civs?

[chequita guevara]

archipalago with the least amout of land for seafaring civs

warm dry worlds for agricultural civs.

large, pangea for expansionist civs

what else?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Seafaring civs do well on pangeas too as they can explore the coastlines and contact a suprising number of civs that way.

[Brundlefly]

I used to think huge maps w/ max # civs were necessary to provide the best challenge. Now I think that Standard maps against 8 civs is plenty challenging. The game moves much faster and that is most important. I like to randomize all other map settings to make things challenging.

[Shogun Gunner]

Warm wet worlds for Mayans. They enslave an insane number of workers, can clear the jungle/marsh land faster than anyone else, build roads to the enemies for trade and conquer via these routes.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Raging Barbarians works well for Mayans also.