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[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I think making worlds into simulated glaobes would add allot to at least adventure mode, but later on it could add to Fortress Mode as well.  By simulated globe, I don't mean the round world thing we see in games like final fantasy or something where you go off the bottom and end up on the top.  What I mean is that if you went off the bottem, you'd come back on the other side of the world, at the bottom, e.g. you went south from Argentina and ended up west of Australia(assuming  of course that you could survive doing something like that).  Am I making any sense?

[AlanL]

The current DF world only covers one hemisphere... the second hemisphere would have to be implimented first.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Uh... hm.  Good point.

[ctrlfrk]

Globes are hard though. Most people usually give up and make it a donut instead. Although if anyone can do it, Toady can.

[I3erent]

Cant have two hemispheres until we get ocean going vessels in adventure mode.

[AlanL]

I've noticed that world maps in DF currently seem to only cover 1/8 of a planet, its only half as tall as a planetary map, and 1/4 as wide, making for 1/8 of the total area.

[Fieari]

What per-tile scale metric are you using to make that judgment?

[Toady One]

I think I put in 2 hours and some change in time zones, although whatever reason I had for doing that probably became invalidated by some later change.  It doesn't go quite to the pole or the equator, but the weather patterns include both the wind/seasonal changes in the tropics and the arctic (though I don't think I did the extreme seasonal sunlight changes for being very close to poles).

[Bien]

quote:Originally posted by berent:
<STRONG>Cant have two hemispheres until we get ocean going vessels in adventure mode.</STRONG>

Or how about supercontinents?