Part

Map

You might say: world map, galaxy map, the board

The playing field: tiles, regions or star systems, each with terrain and resources, mostly hidden at the start.

What it does

Gives exploration its payoff and makes each empire's position different.

Ask

Does this map give each player different, readable choices about where to go?

What to look for

1. Tiles with terrain colours and resource icons
2. Black or greyed fog beyond the explored area

Parts

• Tile grid: How the map is cut into spaces where units stand and cities work land.
• Procedural map generation: A map template generates a different world each game from a chosen type.
• Map size: How many tiles or systems the map holds, usually set with the number of players.
• Fog of war: The parts of the map a player has never seen, and the parts no unit of theirs can see now.
• Start position balance: How much useful food, production, commerce and resources a player's starting site offers, plus its position near friends and enemies.
• Exploration rewards: Sites on the map that give a reward to whoever reaches them first: gold, a map, a unit, a technology.

Sources

1. 2K Games, Sid Meier's Civilization IV Manual, The Main ScreenThe Main Map displays all of your “Known World” – therein you can see your cities, terrain, improvements, resources and units, and all neutral/foreign lands that are “visible” to you.

Use it on your project

teardown-apply: hold "Map" (map) from the teardown at https://teardownatlas.com/4x-strategy/ against my project

Paste it into a coding agent that has the teardown skills.

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