MAP: Norm's Giga map of Europe

[Lemming]

Re: Norm's Giga map of Europe

Originally posted by Norm


-Changed Austrians with Hungarians (really thought long and deep whether to satisfy the pro hungary or pro romania people on the forums..hmm.)

aaahhhh, how could u???? put them in again, pleeaaaseeee!!

[Norm]

Umm....bad luck for you I suppose....

"wasn't Austria just a German Bundesland?"
-Norman, 2001

[Crom]

Like the map Norm.

[Paradigm]

heh.... if youre looking for nit pickers of european geography, id suggest tossing your map onto the europa universalis forum, you may end up with plenty of ppl to get feedback from

[Foxglove]

Nice map Norm, but I also encountered the 4 tech problem as another poster comented.
Kind of takes the challenge out of the game a bit......not sure why some and not others are getting this.

Good luck

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Foxglove
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[Norm]

Hmm....the four tech bug......this really seems odd. Which civilization did you play when you encountered this problem? On the other hand, if we can find out what causes this, the bug could be exploited for some scenarios or so.

/Norman

[Marla]

I'm really impressed by your map ! It's so sad we can't create scenarios already. It's exactly the map needed for several scenarios in different times...
If someone wants to create a world war 1 or 2 scenarios in Europe, you must propose your map !

[ancient]

yeah this would be good for world war scenerios, only if damn firaxis would hurry up with finishing the editor.

[Risbinroch]

Hi

Great map. However when trading territory map with the egyption caused the game to crash, I can trade map with everyone else?

Would love to see a WWI or WWII scenario on this map, ever considered doing such a huge map for the entire world or other regions, pacific, africa or North America?

A suggestion: More pine forests in Scandinavia instead of ordinary forest. Should Iceland be more south? I believe all of Iceland is below the polar circle?

More Uranium in Sweden, I believe Sweden has 1/6 of all Uranium resources in the world

[Risbinroch]

btw, I too had a new tech in 4 turns, so I added a world size, named it Giga and had the tech rate to 400.

[Tzar Alex III.]

Hi,

what mark did you have in history ?
Hungarian instead of Austrian ? The Austrian Monarchy of Habsburg dominated the History of Europe about 100 years. Even had ties to Mexico and Napoleon Boneparte (his wife was from Austria) and so on ... so of course it was the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, but only an Austrian Ruler. Okay this Monarchy had his biggest influences because of Marriage and not war, but who cares... so make love not war :-) because when Austrian started to do war their reign was finished ... WWI and with German in WWII ... but Hungarian what offense to compare, even nice people, but never had any political influence.
Maybe you should read History books before doing such decisions ... and bye the way it was an Austrian Army who won the first time in History against the famouse Napoleon Bonarparte ... but Hungarians ?

[Frugal_Gourmet]

I was playing the English when I had the 4 tech/turn problem.

BTW, any way you could make a smaller version (like just Huge size) as well? It's just a massive undertaking.

[Norm]

Marla,
Thanks for the comment...Attention future scenario builders: this is the map you're looking for! ;-]

Risbinroch,
Thank you for the solution, I'll implement that into the next version of the map. One sixth of all uranium in the world..I doubt that. If you can give me some references to that statement, I'll change that in the next version. One reason of not including too much uranium is to prevent the appearance of very many nuclear powers on the map. Historically, there are 4 nuclear powers on this map. Maybe a few extra uraniums will be possible though.

I'll see what looks better aesthetically on the issue of forests in Scandinavia. I find the standard pine forest to be a bit too arcticish in appearance, so a few tiles here and there, more in the northern areas, ok, but in the more southern regions there are also some non-pine forests, and the forests there tend to be more dense, for which the normal forest looks better imho.

Iceland should be placed correctly on this map, I used this program to import a map of Europe into the editor (what was it called again). According to the projection of that map all land masses should be placed more or less correctly.

I'll think about the idea of producing more maps of this type.. Anybody interested in a colonization type of game, if the scenario editor allows lots of customization.....?

Frugal,
That might very well be my next project, wait and see (No promises though ;-] )

Alex,
On my exams at school I had a 9,5...now I've had a few months european history at university level for which I passed. The main problem is that there just is a bit of a gap in that region of the map. Possible contestants for that bit are Austria, Romania and, yes, Hungary. Austria is geographically probably too close to Germany, Poland and maybe also Rome. Hungary is slightly further to the south-east, which allows more space for the western-central european civilizations for expansion. It's a gameplay issue. And if you want to play Austria-Hungary, then it's still an ok choice, except for the city names.

/Norman

[Dwarf Lord]

Hmm...the dl doesn't work properly Could you check the file, please?
I'd be glad if i could download this one, a really big map of europe is exactly what I miss as far as maps are concerned.
Edit: oops. A question was removed due to the recognition of its answer.

[godinex]

Very goo one, but still the plain-map problem...