It always seemed kind of a good idea to me to avoid the horrible misaligned Pacific distances, but eh.
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That would be a bigger problem. This means that Paradox would have to make 2 maps, and that takes time. A lot of time.
Presumably they'd create one map, and have an option that wraps it around a sphere.
And brazil being is at the same latitude as Mali instead of Kongo lol.
IMO this is the biggest issue of Europa Universalis 4. For a game about colonization, this is quite bad.
If that is your biggest problem with the EUIV map, you should look at the map one more time.
You can easily create a projection that can be translated with relative ease to the ingame map with the same thing that KSP uses.
You make a bunch of squares that properly approximate to a sphere, then map the ingame map to it.
But the mercator projection is the surface of a globe stretched to a square. Now if we could unstrech it...
Google does it all the time. They edit the Google Earth texture in a Mercator format and then just paste it onto the globe.
There are 2 problems with that.
1. Paradox doesn't use the Mercator projection. They use a modified version of Miller cyllindrical projection.
2. Mercator projection is quite ugly.
All one needs, is to descale the latitude by a factor of 4/5 and the map is ready to be pasted on the globe.
I know, but the Americas are a few thousand kilometers too far to the north. Problem is that the 2d map would be hideous. To make the globe, you need to include the poles etc, and I don't want to have the entire southern part of the map being ice.
As far as 2d map is concerned, there is always the possiblity of giving the engine a command to crop the base map between the latitudes 80N and 60S for the 2d mode.
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IMO Spore did its 3D civlization stage map pretty well. Although it failed to expand the strategic mechanics beyond the basic three ones.
Rather than make a globe i would like to see the map on a 3d table to walk around in a throne room thingy....
That would be cool, but I think it would be very annoying after a while.
screw 3D. i'll do a three SIDE map! paradox needs to make the first game with a triangle map!
screw 3D. i'll do a three SIDE map! paradox needs to make the first game with a triangle map!
screw 3-siDe. I'll do a CIRCLE shape map. It will have the realistic shape of the globe, but none of the disadvantages! Paradox needs to make the first game with a circle map!
If we are lobbying for different shapes then I vote for a Cube.
You know it must be the most efficient shape since the Borg use it.
And just think you could have 6 different alt-history empires going on at once.
The Borg is always right therefore I am also voting for a cube. (Damn I have been assimilated by the Borg)
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