What type of world do you like

[MPatton]

Do you like archialpago, continents, or Pangea?

[MPatton]

I like Pangea the best. With the others you might wind up like Robinsion caruso and have to restart. With the others sometimes you get a big island and sometimes you get alittle one. With Pangea you get a very big one and can begin attacking in the Acient age. Besides you get to use rails, and any continent wonder to its fullest. It usually is not a complete pangea I had a whole civ on an austrailia looking and sized island. However I usaully have to go a long ways to get my iron like next to another Civ to get it

[Ephesos]

I personally like achipelagoes, since they're more difficult, and because they offer better defense (I can get pretty paranoid ) Of course, it's always nice to do a continents game. Just recently, as the Babylonians (5 AI's -one dead now- small, warm, temp, raging) I basically got a continent to myself and the Persians (they're dead now ) and it is huge!!! I got a peaceful period of intense expansion, while the other 4 civs tried to kill each other. Now, however, they're trying to move in to my continent...

[Catt]

I voted random because I like the excitemtn of not knowing what's out there and then tailoring my game to the circumstances at hand.

Catt

[vmxa1]

Pangea for me, as little water as possible.

[badams52]

I agree with Catt, though if I happen to be an an archipelago, I might restart.

[monkeyman]

Random!

Random for me too...

Sometimes it's really crazy though. Last game as Celts (Standard,Monarch) I started on a Australian-size, all-tundra island by myself(the rest of the world was two huge continents). It was a struggle get into second place by retirement time. Missed the spaceship launch by 5 turns!!!! Lots of things I should've done differenently, but why repeat a game and all that. This game OTOH, Aztecs (Standard, Monarch), I start on a huge continent (continents map again). Until ~200BC it was Jaguar Warrior insanity, but very easy going warmongering-type action. Now, it's build, secure resources. It's ~1000AD and my score is >double the nearest competitor.

Ok, so both my examples were continents maps, but I think the first game would have been easier if the rest of the world were on islands and if I knew that from the beginning. It's the not knowing that gets ya.

--mm

[Nor Me]

Continents. On archipelago, there's no danger of being attacked and on a pangea it's too easy to use diplomacy to win. But random's nice for the start.

[Worthingtons]

I always used to be a Continent's person, but I've had a lot of warmongering fun on Pangea. My main problem with Continents is that they are all completly filled out by the time you discover the other ones. I also dont like the difficulty it makes for waging war accross continents - it's basically not remotly feasable until late modern era.

[badams52]

I believe in the real history, when North/South America was found it was already settled/filled too.

And I would beg to differ on that last point. I have used galleys with cavalry to wage war on the other continent. Once you have airports, waging war across continents is easy. BTW, you think it was easy in real life to wage war across continents before the modern era?

[epics]

Pangea !!!
I like the hords of my angry soldiers moving across the map waging war on every civ they meet. And after that there is planty of room to expand.
My soldiers don't know how to swim so I avoid archpelago

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Nor Me
Continents. On archipelago, there's no danger of being attacked and on a pangea it's too easy to use diplomacy to win. But random's nice for the start.

You could be rigth, but I only enable Dominate and Conquer. No Un, no culture, no space.

[yxhuvud]

I always do random.

While I like pangaea really much, the advancement in tech is somewhat too fast for my taste..

.. on deity at least. The problem is not as great at lower difficulties

[Cruddy]

Archipelago - Always!

Personally I love building navies and staging invasions - the AI is TERRIBLE at controlling naval forces compared to a human (or even to Civ2, which I found a lot harder).

Haven't got PTW yet, as I don't have broadband and use the net a lot for education - but one day, I'll be out there, looking for my next Trafalgar...

[Master Zen]

Pangaea for MP defenitely. Random for SP although I do like continents...