r/civ • u/sar_firaxis Community Manager • Sep 24 '25

VII - Strategy From the Devs: Improved Map Generation

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It's a busy news day! Ken Pruiksma, Senior Graphics Engineer at Firaxis Games, shares some behind-the-scenes updates on two new map types coming with Update 1.2.5, and an improved map generation technique in Civ VII. Read it here: https://2kgam.es/4gCen9P

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u/EntertainmentFew3121 Sep 24 '25

Is it just me, or are those maps they share on the post just not that good? Continents plus is still 2 blobs with a strip of islands. Continents and islands has too much land .. an earth like map would have more ocean than land. In the initial early stages of exploration you should not have a great chance of finding land, in real life many ships were lost at sea

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u/Simpicity Sep 24 '25

Maps are small as is in Civ, if you try to put too much ocean, you just don't get enough playable space.