World map hasn't got New Zealand in it, why?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Alex 14
Is Australia on it?

Of course.... now if only they included a civilisation to occupy the land

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by Sn00py
Ras, how would you feel if they put a big ocean right where Finland is?

Nah, not bad. I have always wanted a large swimming pool.

It's not a terribly thing, but it's not good either, we're an advanced country

New Zealand an advanced country?
Could someone confirm this independently?

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by Jusbaummer
Hey, Finland has always been too small in civ maps!
and in other maps too..

Are you one of those Suur-Suomi ("Great Finland")
idealists?

[Oldenbarnevelt]

How many New Zealand tiles would be fair?

(nerd mode)

I just did some calculations to find out what would be fair.

The total surface area of the Earth is 510,000,000 km^2.
The land area of New Zealand is 268,670 km^2.

This means that NZ occupies 1/1898th part of the globe. (BTW: it ranks 75th in the list of countries.)

So on a 10,000 tiles map (100x100), NZ would be entitled to 5.27 tiles. Because of the distorted projection (remember how Greenland seems much bigger on world maps than it really is), 6 or even 7 tiles seems reasonable.

On a 32,400 tiles map (180x180), the outcome would be 17.07 tiles. For the abovementioned reason, anything up to 20 tiles would seem reasonable.



Edit: An additional reason why more than 5 (or 17) tiles would be reasonable, is the fact that huge parts of the globe -- the polar areas -- are left out, or so I suppose.

(/nerd mode)