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Isolation BE

In this Beyond Earth version of my popular Civ 5 map script, each player is isolated in a small, fertile area only big enough for one major city. Between them is nothing but wasteland. I always envisioned this map concept as landing on an inhospitable but sparsely terraformed planet, and as such, it fits in Beyond Earth even better than Civ 5.

This script is great for one-city challenges, exploration, or simply playing in a world without oceans. Many options are included to tweak the geography of the wasteland or the fertility of player starts and all can be randomized.

I can guarantee that this map script is unlike any you've played before. Most maps generate terrain before finding player starts, but this one finds the starts and then generates terrain around them. Because of this, the entire generation process had to be written from scratch. And this makes for a very unique and interesting world.

• Terrain - Sets the terrain that the wasteland will be, either snow or desert.
  
• Topography - Sets a theme for the composition of hills, mountains, and canyons in the wasteland. (See screenshots above.)
  
• Miasma - Sets the amount of miasma and alien nests to generate.
  
• Player Size - Sets the tile radius of the civilization starts in the game. E.g. when this is set to 5, the starting areas will be 11 tiles across or 5 * 2 + 1.
  
• Resources - Similar to the generic resources option that most standard maps have, however completely customized. Sparse will yield about 6 resources per player start, normal about 11, and abundant about 16.
  
• Start Epicness - This option allows players to stack the odds in their favor by granting bonuses to only the human player. At each level, more bonuses are added. This option is disabled in multiplayer, however.
  
• All Coastal Starts - When enabled, this standard map option will cause every start to spawn a lake.

• As colony landers already begin over the center of their fertile area, choosing a different landing site or the Retrograde Thrusters option is generally not useful.
  
• Because of the rules that marvels have for placement, they will only appear on certain combinations of biome and terrain options.
  
• The AI still gets a bit over-zealous with the city expansion. Turning down the player size option may temper this some. Or try this mod that keeps AI from putting cities too close to each other.
  
• As with all maps and map scripts, you can play this in multiplayer or unmodded singleplayer by copying the .lua file from My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth\MODS\Isolation to My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth\Maps.