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Equal Area World Map 1:2 Fuller's Airocean w industry

A map of the entire world with all of its land masses to scale.

Greenland is the size of Greenland and Africa the size of Africa. What a concept!

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Differences to alternative version: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2259848236

- Industry exists on the map
- The game starts on Nov7, 1879
- The calendar date runs at 25% speed (I advise playing with cheat engines speed hack set to 4x. Everything will move four times faster, but your calendar date will progress more or less normally fast, not overwhelming you with new vehicles)
- Added a terrain representation of the fertile crescent
- Changed "Swindon" to "Kabul", because it's Kabul.
- St. Petersburg had to be replaced on both maps. Slight differences in that area are possible as a result.


A 2D PROJECTION OF A SPHERE CAN NEVER BE PERFECT
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This map is an achievement of Buckminster Fuller and his Dymaxion - or Airocean projection - way of putting the 3D shape of the world into a 2D map without stretching any of the landmasses to look drastically out of proportion in relation to other land masses.

The basic idea is that all the inevitable gaps that happen when you transfer a spherical surface to a 2D projection, have been moved to the oceanic areas of the map. Combining this with a triangle transformation makes the map's landmasses almost perfectly equal to their actual relative size from the 3D original.

Original credit and a deeper explanation + source code for the projection: https://observablehq.com/@d3/fullers-airocean?collection=@d3/d3-geo-polygon



SO, WHAT IS IT AS A TRAINFEVER 2 MAP?
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It's a 1:2 Megalomaniac sized map (enable experimental map sizes to play) which features dozens of cities and every single continental landmass in the world at it's proper size ratio.

It starts in 1879 - on Trotskys birthday - with a 4x date speed multiplier rate and 5mil in the bank (default). No connections between cities have been drawn and the map is entirely flatland and water.

It felt silly to add mountains to a map of this size. Entire mountain ranges would be small areas on the map and would have little effect on gameplay or be a crude over-extrusion of terrain, which would fly in the face of the proper proportions, which are the point of the map.

I have chosen the city names and places at my own pleasure and mostly for reasons of distance from each other. Obviously some major cities had to be included, but others might surprise you.


HOW CAN I HATE YOUR MAP? HOW DOES IT SUCK?
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It sucks that this map will never be a globe. You will have to fly across the north pole to get from South Africa to South America or the South Pole. All Asia/America routes will also have to either go by air or sea across the north pole.

That sucks.


Otherwise the map is pretty neat, so enjoy and send me screenshots, if you build on it!