(August 22, 2014 at 10:52 am)Insanity Wrote: But they already have a world map?
Yeah, and it doesn't translate well. In fact it's fairly fucking awful. Especially if you try to put the civs in their actual start positions. Europe becomes ridiculously crowded and every other civ just has a massive amount of space to expand into, leading to it being ultra unrealistic in terms of who the major powers will be. There's a few mods out there (check out "the world extended") that try to scale things a bit differently, so for instance it makes Europe bigger and gives it more space. But it still doesn't work that well when you try to play an actual game. I much prefer making my own worlds and giving each civ a fair balance of space and resources. Problem is, if you try to make a world similar to Earth it fucks with my OCD because things will always be slightly out of place, if I put things in place then it will make an unbalanced and unrealistic game. I try to make a world from scratch and make it fair, my OCD fucks with me even more because the civs aren't interacting with the right civs. For instance, I just find it weird if Japan spawns next to Germany. But if I try to make a realistic looking world, the game usually sucks. It's virtually impossible to find the balance between having civs where they should be and not having an unbalanced, crappy game world.
