Customized Worlds with more hills/mountains?

[Krait]

Well, I just dug up Civ II again, and after a lot of tries with custom worlds, I noticed there are very few hills or mountains, while everything is full of Grassland and other low terrain...
Maybe someone can tell me how to coax some more high terrain out of the computer generated maps? I really do not like those flat maps (I study Geology... go figure...)
Thanks and lata all

Krait

[CornMaster]

I don't like lots of hills and mountians but that's all I can get from the game. Besides making your own game when you customize world, pick 3 billion years old. That should give you more mountians and hills. You could also try a cold planet. Might help.

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[Ming]

No need to customize... Just play on a 32 by 35 (or similar size) world. Half the world will be mountains and hills. We play a lot of MP on very small worlds, and that's usually what we get

[Quantum Satis]

Krait, you can get a more varied terrain in the larger worlds by increasing the age of the planet. A world with 10000 squares and an age of 20 billion years have much more mountains, hills and lakes, and a lot less of plains and grassland. If you have the PC version, open the file Game.txt and under CUSTOMAGE you can add more selections after those 3, 4, 5 billion years. Add all the selections 6, 7, 8 ... and up to whatever you want.

However, a small world 20 billion years old will mostly have mountains and lakes and "Not enough arable land" as the Map Editor complains. I suggest that if somebody change the game in this way, you don't use the "Start a New Game" option, but instead the "Customize World" or "Start on a Premade World". You can change (in the same file) the "Start a New Game" to "(Unusable)" to remind of this.