Unless your empire is in the middle of the map, in which case you only need half of the life support tree.

What is maps were actually circular?

Having a map with limits is balanced however; if you hide in the corner, you're less exposed to trade routes and you have to invest more to expend, while the invest is true if you're in the middle.

Would it conceivable to toggle the option to switch between a map with limits and a circular map? I think it was possible in Civ 4, but I havent played in so long.

I don't know about Civ IV, but Civ II had the option during map generation to switch between a flat map (no wrapping) and a cylindrical (East-West wrapping) map. Whichever you chose was what you'd get for the entire game on that map.

It's not like wrapping the map makes the environment any less artificial. In the case of a North-South or an East-West wrapping, you still have 'fences', in your phrase, on the other sides; in the case where all borders wrap around to the other side the game map essentially becomes the surface of a sphere. Neither of these is particularly more realistic or less artificial than the flat map would be; regardless of its form, the game map is just a representation of a region of special interest, rather than a map of the entire galaxy, or even of a significant region of the galaxy.

Listen up ladies! I need your attention and service. I have been working on a new post that has something to all of our ideas EVER written on galciv3. (I don't think it will be as important as I made it seem. Lol) And something needs to bee clarified.

Regarding Carriers, is it accurate and agreeable that tiny hulls qualify to be carried? Is it acceptable to say carriers can be cargo hulls with a special module? Is there a role for them when it comes to invasion? Should fighter have a ranged attack for planets and/or ships that are deemed hostile to your Grand Holy Empire? LOL.

DARCA