Minimap of the Edition IV world
Based from Marla's Map v1.05
The Scipio Map Modification Edition IV
The Scipio Map Modification Edition IV
Changes made In Edition IV
Europe
Europe Has once again been resized. As a consequence Northern Africa has been shortened but still represent a realistic proportion.
-Spain now has the Cantabrian Mts. and Sierra Morena Range placed. This means spain has a lot more hills but still represents an excellent place to settle.
-The area around france has been expanded and should now offer more options for new settlements.
-Italy has been expanded to offer more room (but a cramped one) for additional cities.
-Sicily has been remodeled and offers more room for setllement.
-Greece has been remodeled and is now much more realistically represented.
-The Tagus, Guadalquivir, Douro, and Ebro rivers of Spain have all been reset for a more realistic placement.
-Denmark has been moved more West and is now more realistic in appearence.
-The German area has been expanded.
-Sweden and Norway have been remodeled. They are shorter then i'd like but still the same length as before, just moved somewhat north.
-The Mountain range on Norway/Sweden (I forget its name) has been remodled for a more realistic setting. This means that some tundra, and hills have been placed on the Western shores of Norway to make this area a place one can place cities, but still is accurate to the mountain range of that region.
-The Kola Peninsula has been enlarged to represent its real size.
-Iceland has been remodeled to obtain a mroe realistic shape. It is now closer to Greenland by neccesity rather realism.
-England has been remodeled and is now a little bit more bigger. It unfortunatly is a little to close to norway and iceland but is more realistic in proportion to Europe I beleive.
-All these modifications to Europe were made to improve gameplay as well as improve the accuracy of hte map in these regions. Unfortunatly I can't make norway or sweden as big is they are in a vertical manner, but they still look good on the map. Europe now is preportioned more realistically, in my opinion, to the rest of the world then it was before.
Asia Minor/Middle East
-Turkey has been increased in size and now has a better placement of the Toros Baglari range.
-The connection between africa and the Arabian peninsula has been reduced in size for a more realistic impression of the size of this area.
-The dead sea has been placed though it just appears as a little tiny river in a corner next to the two saltpeter. This is because the Dead Sea is a major producer of salt and saltpeter.
Africa
- North Africa has been reshaped to be a little more realistic as ell as providing area for Europe to expand into. It still is proportionate to the rest of the world.
North America
-Mexico has been expanded to be mroe realistic in size adn shape.
-The Baja peninsula has been moved and is more realistic in placement.
-The Sierra Madre Occidental and Oriental have both been remodeled for realism.
-The Start location and shape of the area around Washington D.C. has been changed to make the location and area be mroe realistic.
If you might notice a lot of changes have been made for realism . These are all neccessary and practical changes in my opinion, and I think represent a better earth with more accurate proportions and precise palcement of terrain. This map is still far from being 100% realistic but I think its getting a lot closer now. This only summarizes the changes made in Edition IV.
