Why is eastern Washington forested?

I loved the way the great lakes were set up so you could build "canal" cities to move through them all the way to the Atlantic. alas the map itself is too big to give a good game. Starting on Lake Superior I didn't find the last civilisation until turn 430, my initial explorers had missed them by half a dozen hexes, which show just how big the map is. Clearly a lot of work went into it, and I enjoyed playing it, but there was never a feeling of nations getting in each others way, never a feeling that you had to fight to keep growing.

Doesn't work for me, when i look for it in the maps, it doesn't show

oh wwoo so much lag

My thoughts 4 years after:

Sadly, Civ 5 is not optimized for this map size. Maps of this size become unstable during gameplay. Some major limitations include the RAM limits caused by Civ 5 being a 32-bit application and an issue where a single civ having more than 250 cities causes city captures to take many minutes or longer to process. Increasing the minimum distance between cities and introducing strict unit supply limits could improve stability, but it's just too damn big. Likewise, this map is not a good candidate for transfer to Civ 6 because that game ALSO has stability issues on maps of this size with recent DLCs.

oh my god I was looking for something like this

i look in the additional maps tab but im not seeing your map

Great map! Just watch out in which folder you are putting it (See description or Tyrone's comment). Also you should go for full amount of Civs and City States and use some Mod like Barbarian Spam fix or somehow magically ban Barbarians ;)

please next time be more specific in the installation process because a lot of us are confused.

the map name is "Giant US" and should be in the "Additional Maps" tab

@nice:maymay yes yes we are

isn't america basically the world

now i can fit all 50 states in

needed this for us civ war game, thanks m8

just a thought,but i think that the Ria Grande would be a good addition for a 'navigable'/coastal tile river,as it can help civs that spawn in the SW US and such expand and invade via sea,making domination easier(kinda) as you dont need to spend X production that could be used for units on settlers to get a coastal city.

@dudeorama Try loading the map without any mods active. If you still wish to play with mods, just don't activate the mod. If it's in your maps folder, it should still load. This will make it spawn with a greater amount of luxuries.

If that still doesn't work, use Really Advanced Setup. With the mod active, you can add, say, 100 extra copies of strategic resources and they will show up. If you want denser resources, just make the count higher, though keep in mind that the map has over 10,000 land tiles for these resources to spawn on.

big problem with this map, there are no horses

@dudeorama ohhhh thank you! works now :)

ok so, go to your Civ 5 file, look for the file called MODS.
enter that and find this map, should eb claled giant united states or something
take the .civ5map file, leave the other one there
drag the map back to the civ 5 folder
then from there drag it into the maps folder

Yeah I've tried doing the method you suggested, problem is I can't find a "Maps" folder at all? Any help?

Das A Big Map

I tried the method you suggest for getting the map to work but it didn't, any other recommendations?

I can't find this map in my map list. What's the name?

I haven't played this but I want to say how glad I am someone made a map with an actual usable river. Such an absent part of this series.

Map didn't show up after activating the mod. I copied the map file to the map folder, like descriped above. Still no map. After deactivating and activating again it's now there. Name is "GiantUS".

i dunno why, but there are NO resources al all on that map. NOTHING. deinstall, sad it looked promising to me...

That will also allow you to show the ozarks better and the ouachita mountains better too since those are considered the interior highlands for a reason, more feedback on that could be a line of hills simulating crowleys ridge as well, its a pretty significant geological structure along the mississippi that can add some flavor as well. Lots of marshes after the Arkansas river joins the mississippi as well.

You should prob make the Arkansas river be navigable considering its a major source of water for the Mississippi. Unless you opposed for balance reasons which is meh etc.

can somebody make a manifest destiny scenario with modded and vanilla dlc natives? that would be epic.

I want to make a city on Bermuda for the hell of it

Nice, Best map IMO

Utah is a wasteland, just like real life

I cant find it in maps when I put the mod on

To that person who thinks I can't build a wall, I CAN and WILL.

So I added the map, I selected it in the mods but it's not showing up in the "Map Type" thing sooo what does one do about this?

Finally a civ 5 mod that I can use the state civs with that looks perfect

Holla @ that little piece of Canada up in the top left. Victoria, BC <3

now i can build that wall trumpy didn't get to make

I need to ask you a few questions regarding map making.

I sent an add request to you!

This would be perfect for a civil war scenario

Are you doing any more maps? I think a historical Giant Pangea would be really neat.

I look forward to benchmarking my PC with this map! It's everything I wanted in America as an American. I will build that great wall along the Southern boarder.

You should make a TSL scenario if you can

AMERICA!
Fuck yeah!

OK, great, thanks so much for the tip and wow, nice PC lmao. Keep up the good work then and I will try that to. Thanks and I didn't know about Multi core thing, I need to try that out also. Great map tho! :)

Scorvetta, the lag is your hardware struggling to cope.

This happens when you reveal the whole map as it is trying to load / render the ENTIRE HUGE map at once.

After the map, terrain, units, features,geometry etc has finished loading (face it there is a LOT on this map) your performance should be back to normal, depending on your hardware.

I am using an 8 core CPU, 32gb ram, SSD etc and I still get a lag when I reveal this map at once.

It justs taxes your hardware big time until it has displayed EVERYTHING on this huge, awesome map.

PS - if you play with lots of AI's on this map, your performance may be significantly reduced / impacted later game (when there are lots of units), but again this depends on your hardware.

KEEP IN MIND YOU CAN OPTIMISE CIV 5 FOR MULTI CORE CPU'S in the config file.

I want to say I love this map, the sheer size and scope of it, Though why am I lagging so bad as soon as we get satelittes and reveal the whole map, omg I begin to lag and move so slow, is there anyway to fix that? Thanks

I have to second qadams post.

This is an awesome map. I especially love the navigable rivers!

thx now a have a good map to play with some fallout mods

this map makes me want to play EU4...