Map questions

[rich12545]

1. What is pangea?

2. How about, in addition to random, you can choose a premade map, use the map options (like wrap etc) and use the rest of the new game options to start a game? This would allow a lot of flexibility with pre-made maps and make them easier to use.

[Hawk]

1. Pangea: the name of the ancient super-continent that is tought to have contained all the dry land ca 250 million years ago (wiki). Here it means the map has one huge continent.

2. Great idea!

[Brit]

1. What is pangea?

2. How about, in addition to random, you can choose a premade map, use the map options (like wrap etc) and use the rest of the new game options to start a game? This would allow a lot of flexibility with pre-made maps and make them easier to use.

Which other map options do you mean? It's probably okay to start with a wrapped map and turn it into a non-wrapped map, but the reverse would get weird. You'd end up with islands that end abruptly along the wrap-line.

[rich12545]

I mean whatever the map designer setup. For example, the world map is wrap l-r. That's it. You play on the map without being able to change basic map options. Other options would be amount/placement of cities and resources plus whatever else I can't think of offhand. It's the actual map. Then you can add the ruleset, players, etc and the game will place them on the map as if it was random.