What kind of map do you play with?

[Napoleonic S]

Land types? Ie continents, pangaea etc
Amount of resources? Low, abundant.
Starting position? Standard, legendary
World age?
Sea level?
Humidity? Wet, dry

Including the random and shuffle options

And why? Do you have any preference? Which map type most boring or interesting? Do you notice anything with those variation in relation to your game and/or the AI?

[Napoleonic S]

sad that this forum feels so empty... I don't get it as there are so many more active forums here for games that are played by way less number of players?

[NastyStranger69]

sad too, that nobody can help me with launchung the game

[pitonsnaboca]

Maybe the forum would have more life if almost every thread wasn't invaded by the "constant complainers" (as I call them), people might be more inclined to engage in conversations.
But hey, everybody has the right to say whatever they want/feel. :)

On main topic: Usually, I start with enormous map (mod for bigger maps), with high sea level on small continents (alternative maps mod) with "legendary start". And the rest is set to default.

[fakemon64]

I like the fractal map type the most. IMO it makes the most unique maps. But i've always kept the other options of default

[Simpson3k]

duel sized islands with high tide :>

[Napoleonic S]

Originally posted by pitonsnaboca:

Maybe the forum would have more life if almost every thread wasn't invaded by the "constant complainers" (as I call them), people might be more inclined to engage in conversations.
But hey, everybody has the right to say whatever they want/feel. :)

On main topic: Usually, I start with enormous map (mod for bigger maps), with high sea level on small continents (alternative maps mod) with "legendary start". And the rest is set to default.

Is there bigger map mod that allow for procedurally generated map?

Also is it old or young earth that result in more mountainous map? Has anyone ever get great mountainous map?


And seeing how bad the AI with naval and air transportation or combat, does island plates map make the easiest game?

Also does anyone ever get that 6 arms land type with the shuffle map option? Does shuffle really randomizes the map over all map types?

[Azunai]

young worlds result in more mountains and hills, so it's kinda nice to play with that setting since mountains are great for science (also fro religion) and hills are great for... well everything, really.

haven't played with different sea levels. i guess they would be useful to create intermediate map sizes or something (small map with low water level is effectively a bit larger than the normal small map, but still a bit smaller than the standard sized one)

i usually play continents, but i also tried fractal and it seems to produce a fairly random landmass. ended up on a peninsula that was almost completely hills and mountains. good production, but i actually had trouble feeding all the miners. was a fun game, though. conquered up a city state in a nice river valley and a few cities from my neighbors and ended up with a bunch of cities with unusually diverse characteristics.

[terry]

Originally posted by napoleonic_sp007rz:

Land types? Ie continents, pangaea etc
Amount of resources? Low, abundant.
Starting position? Standard, legendary
World age?
Sea level?
Humidity? Wet, dry

Including the random and shuffle options

And why? Do you have any preference? Which map type most boring or interesting? Do you notice anything with those variation in relation to your game and/or the AI?

Usually play pangea, mainly because i know i wont get put on an island by myself.
Resources: abundant, and still have games that i dont get certain strategic resources.
Standard starting position just because i dont feel like messing with that.
Standard world age because i hate adding more mountains. Sure they are good for district bonuses but bad for everything else. No food or production from the tile they are on and there are usually several of them close together. Cant settle a city on a mountain so playing new map also gives less usable tiles therefore limiting starting areas for civs/city-states.
Water level i play on standard. I would like to play on low simply because i think there are too many unusable tiles in civ6 but im afraid that would also reduce the amount of rivers and lakes.
Rainfall i play on wet for lots of rain forests. They slow down exploration a little bit but the payout from having a lot of rainforests is worth it.

[pitonsnaboca]

Originally posted by napoleonic_sp007rz:

Is there bigger map mod that allow for procedurally generated map?

Just go to the workshop and search the word "maps", you'll have plenty to chose from. :)
I don't even recall which mod I have installed, but it was even before they opened the workshop, I got it at civfanatics.

[Monado]

Fractal or Shuffle maps. All map settings at random except starting postion and resource rarity. Those stay at standard because I hate being given super powerful starts.

[Napoleonic S]

Originally posted by pitonsnaboca:

Originally posted by napoleonic_sp007rz:

Is there bigger map mod that allow for procedurally generated map?

Just go to the workshop and search the word "maps", you'll have plenty to chose from. :)
I don't even recall which mod I have installed, but it was even before they opened the workshop, I got it at civfanatics.

I'm under impression that map mods come with their own predetermined shape, like giant earth map must be like in reality, is it possible to have just giant size map?


Myself I tend to play with randomized element for the world age, water size and humidity, although I'm not sure if random there mean randomly generated or just picking between their own respective options.

Currently playing in a map with abundant resources and legendary start.

Speaking of which, feel free to post screenshots for the map that you like.

[pitonsnaboca]

Originally posted by napoleonic_sp007rz:

Originally posted by pitonsnaboca:

Just go to the workshop and search the word "maps", you'll have plenty to chose from. :)
I don't even recall which mod I have installed, but it was even before they opened the workshop, I got it at civfanatics.

I'm under impression that map mods come with their own predetermined shape, like giant earth map must be like in reality, is it possible to have just giant size map?

Most of them say it in its name, but if in doubt read the mod's description. If it has no mention to America, Earth, Mediterranean, GoT, whatever else... then it's almost for sure a random bigger map creation.


I use this one since last year, from civfanatics, but I believe there are newer ones in the workshop with even bigger random maps
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/larger-worlds.25496/

[Duck from State Farm]

I tend to usually go with Pangaea (The one huge landmass map), TSL Earth map, and the island Pilates (the map where you need to build a strong navy for this map. I tend to go with the default settings for each of the three map choices that I do but I always get the biggest map possible. I also tend to do continents but not as often as the other three.

[Napoleonic S]

Originally posted by pitonsnaboca:

Originally posted by napoleonic_sp007rz:

I'm under impression that map mods come with their own predetermined shape, like giant earth map must be like in reality, is it possible to have just giant size map?

Most of them say it in its name, but if in doubt read the mod's description. If it has no mention to America, Earth, Mediterranean, GoT, whatever else... then it's almost for sure a random bigger map creation.


I use this one since last year, from civfanatics, but I believe there are newer ones in the workshop with even bigger random maps
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/larger-worlds.25496/

Is there a workshop version of that map?

[pitonsnaboca]

Originally posted by napoleonic_sp007rz:

Is there a workshop version of that map?

That's a mod to create random maps. I don't think this one is in the workshop (I can't find it there).

If you want, you can try this one, that has fixed maps and also randomly generated maps with bigger sizes.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=871861883