The continents are maybe a little too square-shaped (I see that rotating helps much). But still, really nice maps!

What are the dimensions of those big squares?

Small islands are starting locations for really hardcore players. I mean really.

Or where players will be started on harder difficulty settings if Brad can't make the AI strong enough

I thought units could move across water Civ 5 style?

Naval stuff is my biggest request for an added feature for the 2nd expansion right now though.

Those are some serious choke points. Question - if locked in by another faction's ZOC, what was the mechanic decided in FE to pass through their ZOC? For example in WOM, big bad arse AI faction wants to kill me but can't pass through wussy AI's ZOC to get to me. I think I remember something about rights of passage being discussed awhile ago.

Just concerned the AI will get "ZOC-locked" and gimp their roll. Peace out, homies. Booyaa!

16x16 making the top map @ 60x60 & the bottom @ 80x60 = TINY maps, I'm loving the farther away from starting locations you go the more dangerous & more rewarding, adds alot to the questing 'feel', will make my '400x400' map quite interesting & the size of the Wildlands is also nice, really gives them presence

murteas, unless it is 64 bit the MAX ram use (unless LAA enabled during compile) will be 2gb, BUT 64 bit and it is a HUGE ball park to play in, not just the tiny 2gb back yard at present

harpo

Yep. The map size I was testing out was medium in the screenshots.

Larger is...well larger.

Memory remains the constraint here plus the time to generate the worlds.

Brad- will there be any chance for multiple underground level of the map? or it just going to be locked down to one level (the surface)

Yes, agreed, you are absolutely correct.  I realize that 64 bits is required to use more than the < 3GB limit that 32 bit has.  Not sure what I was really trying to get at there as I know that 64 bit was not coming out.   Let's just chalk it up as a Rick Perry moment.  

On another note, I love large maps, but I never seem to be able to finish them.  I always start large maps but then tend to restart again after a little while.   Maybe this time I'll actually play all the way through on large map with all the AI players enabled.

It avoids the building of transports, which are clinky and an AI problem.  Streamlining it just makes sense to me, provided the units can get blown out of the water by warships.

Well, the CivV boats would be the easiest way to do them, I guess.  And not to hate on CivV, there were other, older and just as hardcore TBS games that also did this.  There has to be a way to balance this out.  The AI needs a way to  be able to cross water effectively, but not so easy that terrain advantage is completely mitigated.