It is often the case in multiplayer games that a player will be isolated, making them more likely to win a ‘runaway’ victory where no other players can feasibly intervene.A snowflake map increases the coastline-to-area ratio, encouraging naval warfare, and also separates players in such a way that naval warfare will often be preferable in terms of efficiently conquering an opponent. Naval warfare sees very little use in multiplayer due to the fact that Pangaea maps are almost exclusively used.It aims to address several issues in multiplayer: This map, once completely, I hope will see some use in the multiplayer community. So I decided to take it upon myself to create an actual map script that randomly generates a balanced map with a ‘snowflake’ template. The first patch that came out for Civ 6 included the ‘Six-Arm Snowflake’ map, which sounded promising, but we were disappointed to discover that it is actually a predefined map, not a map script.
There is still a lot that needs to be done, but I’ve decided to release what I’ve done anyway just to get some feedback. For the past few weeks, I have been spending hours per day working on a custom map script for Civ 6.