Map seeds

[The Head Pirate]

I don't know if the Dev's read this, but your game would be much better and easier to recommend to my friends that enjoy more traditional 4x games if it allowed you to save a map's initial state, or better yet pick a map seed to be generated.

Part of the fun of playing Civ (which auto saves the initial map) is going back and seeing how a different strategy would work on the exact same lay out. Given how VAST the resource layout impacts game play, this is even more true of Thea.

It's really frustrating getting to turn 200, realizing I would like to see what happened if I focused more on exploration, but having to generate a new map to do so. I can never tell if exploration was the better option, or if the new map just leads itself to exploration more / less.

[robbie.price]

The dev's quite definately do read the forums, a lot.

sharing ultra friendly and ultra evil seeds on the forum would be fun.

TurtleMap:*starting city: wiker, coal, silk and amber in starting 8 tiles*, Dryad wood in LOS, Ancient wood within reach of blessedPath+2.