Please, make TLS for Caravans of the Silk Road Civs and city-states!

marvellous map

very fancy! it would be cool if the gaul mod was tsl'd in the center of anatolia to simulate the galatians and add a little spice there

Very cool map,love from CN

that being said yongle should spawn up in beijing if I'm not mistaken

ah ok my bad thank you for clarification

@DudeChris33: You talk about realism yet do not know that the real Yellow River is not navigable at that location due to the presence of Hukou Waterfall, which is represented by the Giant's Causeway, as already mentioned in the description above, and which I shall copy for you here:

True Start Locations:
All the official civs, city states and natural wonders are placed at their real world location (apart from the Giant's Causeway which represents the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River).

not realistic and it also is impassible so blocks the river from the sea

Playing as Yongle rn and for some reason the giants causeway is in the river east of my start?

@bendrickson6 yongle works, can confirm

Will there be a patch for the Rulers of China pack? I get a null start when trying to play as Wu Zetian, Yongle, or Qin Unifier. I love playing this map so much it's amazing so I definitely would like to use the new leaders :)

Italy being the size of northern India really makes the map... odd.. it looks right but feels wrong

Apparently I didn't., though I thought I had. I'm able to enable them now. Thank you for your help!

@TheBionicHobbit: Do you have YnAMP and enable it ingame?

Hi Saph;

I having a bit of an issue with the Crossroad of Empires/Cradle of Civilizations Maps.

I'd dearly love to play either of these maps, however my mods list won't allow me to enable them. I have had this problem with a couple of your other map mods. I was wondering if you could tell me what I'm doing wrong! I would LOVE to be able to play those maps. Thank you in advance for your time/help!

I Added support for Jatofi's Pula and Jatofi's Trieste

@antivandalism: Here is an Africa map

@mar_sko: There are rivers. You can see them in the screenshots above.

What I guess you have done is restarting the map, which skips certain parts of the YnAMP map generation process, including the placement of rivers. So don't restart a map.

No rivers there...

Can you make a detailed huge map of Africa and Mesopotamia, please? 🥺

Love This!

loving the new ideas coming to the workshop

Okay thank you. I see.

@优秀的人: What are Trailblazers? Anyway if no unit is showing up, it usually means you have selected a civ with no TSL on this map. What civ did you choose?

When I started the game, there were no Trailblazers in the screen at all. How to solve this problem?

@六号位敌方卧底: I'm not sure I understand what you wrote, but what do you need translated?

么翻译么

I had a great game on this map as Kubla (China). I also used the Historic speed mod which stretched the game out without letting the AI civs get ahead in science. I needed the time just to explore this map, ended up winning with a diplo victory.

I followed them perfectly (althouhg not sure what happened with Kongo - maybe somehow missed something that time). I've removed some extra resource mods and seems now to be working. I think it was getting stuck on the Duel map that the database uses so maybe just set that to Huge and could prevent some hang-ups with other mods.


I've turned off some of the extra resource mods and seems to be working better now. Got Genghis randomly and I like how far he started from Horses so have to start out somewhat nomadic/herding.

@dwarner: I've tested the map after your first comment and it works fine. This mod only contains the Huge map, so it is literally impossible for the small map to apppear unless you select the wrong map.

And Kongo does not have a TSL on this map.

Please read and follow the set-up instructions above. There is a list of TSL civs. And after you load database you have to select this map in order to play on it.

If this map still does not load, I recommend you unsubscribe both YnAMP and this mod and resubscribe again to make sure you have the right and latest mod files.

No, I have that map and it did load the Huge Map once (without units and Kongo as my Civ) but anything else I try it forces it into small with no other Civs on map (or maybe Duel).

@dwarner: I think you have selected the wrong map on the map selection screen. This huge map is called "Saph's Silk Road: Crossroads of Empires", while the small maps are "Saph's Silk Road: Alexander's Path/The Occident/The Orient".

When I load database then go to create game it loads the small size version rather than the Huge.

@civisterra: I agree. This is not the map for Egypt. After all, Egypt was not a major part of the historical Silk Road. Anyhow, floodplains are randomly generated each time you create a new game with this map.

Hey Skylar, great map really, but how can we make sure that Nile delta has lots floodplains that can flood? Otherwise Egypt is quite disadvantegous...

@Garagos: "Converting" means building a whole new map, which I probably don't have the time to do, but I can relatively easily trim off the left and the right and a bit of the top of this map to make it a Large map. Alternatively you can try Alexander's Path , which is a Small-sized map cropped from the centre of this Huge map.

cool map, but is it possible that you will convert it to large or medium in the future?

@Jim: Yes, that's what happens when you have more city states selected than city states slots available. If you have more slots than city states selected, city states converted from barbarian camps will be bugged.

Ok thanks. The barb camps weren't bugged, just said can't convert, no city states available, so doesn't break, you can still interact with them they will just never convert

@Barely Competent Jim: I don't think what you want is possible on a YnAMP map. If you set "Civilization Placement" to "True Starting Location" during set-up, the city states converted from barbarian camps will be bugged and cannot be interacted with. The only way to have city states from barbarian camps is to disable TSL.

I'm a little confused by the city state options. I want to play with barbarian clans mode, so ideally start with the tsl city states on the map but allow the others to be created later in the game.

Is one of the options suitable for that or should I just do it like a normal game?

Thanks!

Legend!!!

@capperz412 & Lucius : The custom civs and city states you have requested have been added to all of my Silk Road maps

@Lucius: Thanks! It's gonna be a big update!

Also Civitas Armenia, I forgot to add that to the list, but I mentioned it on the other page.

Recommendation for two City-States, and Several Modded Civs

Civitas Romania
Civitas Seleucids
Civitas Sassanids
Civitas Akkad
Merrick's Venice
Merrick's Sicily
Merrick's Serbia
Merrick's Bulgaria
Merrick's Palmyra


Gedemo's Lothar (in the Eastern Gujurat Peninsula)
Gedomo's Taxilia (northern Indus, Islamabad location)

气候变化，洪水淹没了地块，又好像没有完全淹没

@capperz412 : Thanks for the suggestions! Will update the map later this week!

@Skylar Saphyr You were right, it was a problem with one of my mods, though I'm unsure which. Sorry to bother you.

If you're up for it, I have some more Gedemo city state placement suggestions:

Troy, Knossos (Crete), Kition (Cyprus), Firozkoh (Afghanistan), Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan), Hatra (north Iraq), Susa (west Iran), Urkesh (Syria), Xingqing (north China), Dali (south China), Pagan and Tagaung (X Burma), Qal'at Al-Bahrain (north Arabia), Qabala (Azerbaijan) Argedava (Romania), Avar Ring (above Italy), Varna (Bulgaria), and Ferrara, Urbino, Holy See (X Vatican City), Siena, Lucca, Mantova, and Milano in Italy.

I appreciate this is quite a few, they're just suggestions, but I think they would really tie this mammoth of a map together! Really appreciate your work!

This map is so sick, started up a game with almost every civ (no Alexander or Suleiman, playing Basil and wanted some room), time for the ultimate conquest