map looking strange

**The_Dark_Legion** · September 23, 2006, 04:51 AM

why is the map like this? Is it the route to America?

looks like a snake route(lower left)

**Chuffy** · September 23, 2006, 04:53 AM

It is the route to America.

**CIaagent11** · September 23, 2006, 04:54 AM

Its a fleet, that discovered the hidden area at the american coast.

**The_Dark_Legion** · September 23, 2006, 04:57 AM

i thought it was some kind of fog of war!

**Saint-Germain** · September 23, 2006, 05:07 AM

It is fog of war (I reckon) and the snake-like bit is the only part that has been dispelled by a unit (in this case, probably a fleet) moving through it.

**CIaagent11** · September 23, 2006, 05:09 AM

**Lpo** · September 23, 2006, 06:41 AM

Looks as though it only goes as far up as Florida.

**Perikles** · September 23, 2006, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by Lpo

Looks as though it only goes as far up as Florida.

I can see that too, the whole thing looks a bit out of proportion to me....

**NachoMan** · September 23, 2006, 06:47 AM

Originally Posted by Perikles

I can see that too, the whole thing looks a bit out of proportion to me....

Maybe it's ment to be that way, to represent navigation and mapping technologies back then. They didn't have saterlites to get it perfect lol.

**Matty_P** · September 23, 2006, 09:50 AM

eww, i don't like it.

i'm gonna wait to see what it's like in game before i pass judgement.

**king-nord** · September 23, 2006, 11:40 AM

nah looks interesting an ugly prehaps they will reveal more btw where u get those pictures

**carl-the-conqueror** · September 23, 2006, 03:29 PM

that was weird, i thought i saw this post three/four weeks before, with the exact same comments, anywho, that is deinately florida at the top, but if it was going to be to scale there would be miles and miles of ocean, and we would get from new york (if that) and east.

**king-nord** · September 23, 2006, 03:35 PM

hmm about distance u see the snake trail prehaps thats the only route an it takes like 10 turns to get there

**Blau&Gruen** · September 23, 2006, 04:06 PM

These are the shores of China and the fleet that opened the way is on search for the North-West passage.

**Azai Nagamasa** · September 23, 2006, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by king-nord

hmm about distance u see the snake trail prehaps thats the only route an it takes like 10 turns to get there

No, it's just Fog of War. The player just decided to go down around to Africa, then head to the Americas. We've all seen those snake like routes sending our Diplomats through undiscovered territory, after all.

Plus, I'm sure most of us have seen the scanned picture of the map with no Fog of War (from some Turkish site), so rest assured the route is not... crazy like that. Just fog.

**Lusted** · September 23, 2006, 04:40 PM

No its not. We know form other pics we've seen that is Florida in the North, Central America and the Caribbean in the middle, and Brazil in the south. It's not in proporation to how it should be, but otherwise Ca would have to extend the map a lot further south to make it realistic, and i personally don't want miles and miles of desert at the south of the map.