A small collection of Custom maps.

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V 1.0
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--Isolitude--
Medium, Large or Huge map size (I forget which)
A perfectly balanced 3 player map.
All three start locations feature the exact same layout.
There are no additional planets to find.
All 6 planets surround the same Star.
Very resource and relic heavy, expect games to progress very quickly, No ascension crystals.
All planets are class 26 and each planet has a trait.
The six used are...
Bountiful = +50% gross income
Bread Basket = +25% food, +25% growth
Active Core = +50% social manufacturing, -25% growth
Desert Planet = +50% social manufacturing, -25% food
Ghost world = +50% research
Shielded = +25% research, + 0.3 planetary defense

--Dominion--
Medium, Large or Huge map size (I forget which)
Early Version of Isolitude map.
No Planet traits and no maxed planet classes.
Planets are default map editor generation of perfect planets so the classes tend to range between 19-21.
Still Resource and Relic Heavy, no ascension crystals.

--6 Player Balanced Start--
Small map size
Designed for 6 player games planer setup is similar to Dominion.
Not resource heavy, well not as heavy as Isolitude and Dominion.
Each planet is default classes like Dominion and each planet contains 1 of each of the resources.
Relics are in all 6 corners of the map.
Includes Ascension crystals.

--Perfect Split--
This Huge map only contains stars.
19 of them, all equidistant from one another.
Designed as a starting point for building your own Huge maps.

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V 1.1
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--Expansionists Dream--
Huge Map size
Designed for 12 players
Randomly generated scattered map that I remove all (I think) Dead planets and pushed the habitable planets to class 26
added small collection of 2 of each relic and 1 of each resource to an area near homeworlds.
All factions start along the outside edge. 6 in each hex corner and 6 centered on each hex side.

--Separation Anxiety--
6 Player map Huge map
Planetary spread offers 12 planets per faction
Each players grouping contains 16 total relics and 6 resources all obtainable with only 3 starbases
Each star is far enough from the others to allow for a economy starbase between each stars 2 planets.
Additionally stars are 2 far from each other for shipyards to profit off of more than 2 planets so expect to have 6 shipyards running, but with the relics available to each faction each of the 6 shipyards will still receive enough manufacturing to turn out ships quickly.

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If you intend to play with these maps solo, set the AI difficulty up slightly higher, "I recommend normal or higher".
The AI is typically too stupid (on beginner) to use the resources accordingly so setting the difficulty higher will prevent (to some degree) the AI being left in the "Space Dust".
Really Bad pun intended...

All maps work for Online Multiplayer except Perfect split.
To use in a multiplayer game only the host needs these maps installed.

Currently Multiplayer supports only 4 players.
Any combination of players and AI can be used as long as total races equals 4.
However, Isolitude and Dominion maps only have starts and systems built for 3 players.
The reason there are only 3 players for those maps is because I built them to play online with 2 of my friends.

*Edit*
Using the steam beta opt-in the above MP issues are resolved.

If extensive changes are made to map editor these might become obsolete.
I will update accordingly If possible.
It would likely be too much of a hassle to rebuild all of these if major changes are made to the map editor however.

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Installation Instructions

unpack the 7zip file and place the CustomMaps folder into your...
My documents\My Games\GalCiv3 folder

Or place the Maps directly into...
My documents\My Games\GalCiv3\CustomMaps

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Feel free to leave post bugs and any issues found in the forum and I will address them accordingly.
ENJOY

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Prior to 7-31-15.......V 1.0 - initial release
7-31-15.......V 1.0 - Minor changes to Information concerning Multiplayer play.
7-31-15.......V 1.1 - 2 New maps added