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The title says it all.
There are seas, but it is impossible to use them. It would be nice that one of the eldest transportation means that humankind invented could be used in the game. This would induce new buildings and new units ; as well as opening new choices.
Yves
Ships are in some pre-made maps, but not random maps. IIRC, there were problems implementing them in random maps. If you want ships, you have to play the pre-mades that have them.
Seas aren't completely useless without ships. If you get Raise Land, you can make a path through them at your convenience.
Imo, adding ships to the sandbox mode would be a massive undertaking if the intergration of seafaring is going to be successful in the remotest.
I would rather see the sandbox mode have an option to activate north-south world wrap and east-west world wrap so that no matter where you start off in random world, you are at the 'center' of attention.
This change would require considerably less effort to undertake. More stamps would need to be created so that the edges are traversable. Some programming needs to be done so that the game can't tell the difference with the map edge, as if it were normal terrain always. Done.
Toss in some flying spells and waterwalking spells and properly adjust raise/lower terrain spells and presto....no more need for ships to overly complicate the game.
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