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The Flat Earth 140x140

This is a fairly large Earth map with an interesting twist.

I've long been fascinated by the flat Earth stuff from a worldbuilding perspective. It is, of course, a silly concept in real life, but it makes for a cool map. A disc world, surrounded by a mysterious, impenetrable wall of frost. Don't go there - the great observers may smite you!

It also, by chance, solves some major problems with the standard Mercator-projection-based maps. It reduces the size of Canada and Siberia, gives more room to the tropics (relatively), and opens up the Pacific. The Pacific is one of my favourite areas of the map. Despite it still being difficult to play, there are now a huge range of islands to work with, which I attempted to place accurately.

By no means is this map to scale. Different bits were chopped and changed to better work for the game. It's mostly the usual suspects - Europe, Middle America and the Pacific islands. I have still strived to fit everything together nicely, and I tried my best to get it looking realistic. I put a decent bit of time into mapping out rivers, hills/mountains, permafrost, deserts, and even used the continent painting tool to add pretty gradients between wetter and drier areas. There are some issues (siberia is a bit smaller than I intended, the bend between north and south america is a bit intense, west african coast is a bit ♥♥♥♥♥), but reworking them would be a big project. I'm very happy with the map regardless.

The map is probably too big for the vanilla resource generator to work correctly. It probably won't give you enough strategics and luxuries. As a result, I've disabled resource generation and used "Really Advanced Setup" to place resources. I've included a pre-built vanilla (all dlc) map and a pre-built Sman's Ancient World At War (AWAW, standard edition) map. I may add some more pre-built maps later (for instance, the full AWAW or More Luxuries).

I wanted to share my "Really Advanced Setup" presets, but they don't work across computers. If you want to generate your own map, you will need to manually add the list of resouces based on one of my presets (which I will attach in a "discussion" on this page). Test those numbers out, and adjust them to fit your playstyle (or your mod list - there are plenty of other resource-adding mods out there).

I'd recommend mods like "More Moves for Units" and "Trade Range Increase"

The map contains 3697 mountainless land tiles, which is roughly 115% the size of a vanilla huge map and 58% the size of PTW Extended. It should be quite playable. I'd recommend you grab a mod that lets you play with 40-60 civs, however. 22 civs will make for a VERY empty world.

tags: flat earth, disc, Dymaxion