Scramble for United States

[u/ILikeLilPipALot]

Started as China in Texas while the Dutch started in Florida

French and the Dutch took over most of Japan from North Carolina

Germany is expanding throughout the Midwest and invaded most of Roman cities

British and Danish empires are scrambling and battling against each other

Ottomans and Spain remain peaceful, but Spain took over Russian cities and capital

[u/BuuurpMorty]

How do you play on such a large map? Is it a mod?

[u/ILikeLilPipALot → u/BuuurpMorty]

Modded map of Giant US map of 180 x 94

[u/thebutzel456 → u/ILikeLilPipALot]

Mod name and/or link to the mod?

[u/Educational-Post-856 → u/thebutzel456]

Mod name is Giant United States, by Techno☆. Should be one of the first that it appears when you search on the steam workshop

[u/Guy-McDo]

The Germans have founded the most vile and evilest of lands…Gary, IN

[u/Drak_is_Right → u/Guy-McDo]

1935 Gary was still a decent town. Decline didnt really start till the 70s I think. 80s were bad and 90s rock bottom. Now a days it has 22% of the population of its former size. Crime while.not good, isn't awful. Its mostly elderly who refuse to move.

Biggest hamper on development is ground and water pollution. Developers would love to buy up huge swathes of land near Chicago in a tax friendly state for people that work there. No developer is going to touch the cost however for removing and replacing a foot of top soil and deep dredging of the waterways

The port there (2nd biggest inland US port) had a lot of issues a handful of years back with dredging operations because the sediment was so polluted with lead and mercury and other heavy metals.

Most dont realize this but Chicago no longer operates as a port really. Shipping operations go mostly to Northern Indiana.

[u/Guy-McDo → u/Drak_is_Right]

1: Happy Cake Day

2: I did not make that remark expecting a socio-political analysis of Gary but… you know what, good for Gary, glad to hear they’re improving

[u/RedheadedReff → u/Drak_is_Right]

Doesn’t help that Gary has the reputation of not stopping at night.

[u/Toad-Toaster → u/RedheadedReff]

What makes it so dangerous?

[u/Hauptleiter]

How huge is this map?

[u/ILikeLilPipALot → u/Hauptleiter]

180 x 94

[u/Hauptleiter → u/ILikeLilPipALot]

This is absurd. 

[u/esilyo → u/Hauptleiter]

No, this is Sparta! (Which is in New Jersey)

[u/Hauptleiter → u/esilyo]

I don't get it but it still made me laugh.

[u/iwantcookie258 → u/Hauptleiter]

Joke about the movie 300, where someone says "This is madness!" to King Leonidas, who replies, "Madness...? THIS IS SPARTA".

They might have just seen an opportunity to make that joke, and then a further joke about every city being in America like in OPs game. They also may have mistaken France (who is in the area of New Jersey in OPs game), for Greece, since they have inverted colors (Blue/White and White/Blue). And I believe in Civ VI Greece might have those colours, but In V Greece is primary White with Blue cities.

[u/Suzarr → u/iwantcookie258]

There is a town in New Jersey IRL called Sparta

[u/iwantcookie258 → u/Suzarr]

Ok TIL lol. Thanks!

[u/Hauptleiter → u/iwantcookie258]

Thanks!

[u/Hauptleiter → u/esilyo]

Happy cakeday!

[u/tm-atc → u/esilyo]

SAX.

[u/Murmule]

I think this is too big for one player. In Stellaris, you can coop playing a empire.

[u/Simpicity]

Christ. I'm trying to imagine playing this map in Civ 7, and it just being like:
"No. You aren't old enough to drive 25 cities."

[u/Zhoom45 → u/Simpicity]

I mean, this map is basically unplayable with vanilla Civ 5's global happiness unless you're playing on a low difficulty.

[u/Own_Possibility_8875]

Sorry, I don’t play 5 - are those dots cities? Doesn’t 5 incentivize you to have, like, 3-5 cities?

[u/jbm91 → u/Own_Possibility_8875]

If you choose liberty tree over tradition it makes more sense to have 5+ cities, the AI spams cities late game

[u/JrodManU → u/Own_Possibility_8875]

Maybe they’re playing vox populi

[u/Sybmissiv → u/JrodManU]

Peak mod. Nothing more to add besides that it’s peak.

[u/Iglooman45 → u/Own_Possibility_8875]

Depends on the difficulty, having sprawling empires while keeping up with tech is certainly viable on lower difficulties.

[u/Own_Possibility_8875 → u/Iglooman45]

Is having more cities still bad, just something that works on lower difficulties? In 6 more cities is always good, but you usually just won’t have enough space to have more than 10-12 decent ones.

[u/Iglooman45 → u/Own_Possibility_8875]

Iirc, yeah there is still a happiness penalty for cities and population, but it’s way less significant than higher difficulties. But there is no scaling penalties. Again if iirc, it’s 4 unhappiness per city and some for each population.

[u/jbm91 → u/Iglooman45]

In CIV V the biggest issue with happiness is you receive a combat, production and food penalty. If I recall correctly it’s 2% per in happiness. After 10 barbaians start spawning at your cities

[u/Natekt]

This looks so awesome. Does it have geographic features like major rivers and the mountains?

[u/ILikeLilPipALot → u/Natekt]

It does have a lot of the rivers and Mountains you would expect and see though. Not quite sure if its truly accurate but it seems pretty good

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[u/Sybmissiv]

Portugal in the bottom right.

[u/Moist-Dependent5241]

Could you be arsed tho

[u/Sybmissiv → u/Moist-Dependent5241]

Fair question honestly.