Map Making (C-evo)

Map Making in the free game C-evo can be researched very early and may have immediate benefits as well as leading to longer-term gains, particularly related to water.

The earliest benefit is usually the addition of trade points to tiles containing rivers.

Its most important value is usually allowing the designing and building of naval units - but that depends on the amount of water available for them, which can be insignificant if the map has a high proportion of land tiles.

Map Making leads to Seafaring, which allows the building of Harbors, adding foodpoints to coastal water tiles

The other value is enabling a nation to build "The Lighthouse", a Wonder that adds material yield to coastal water tiles, though it may eventually be obsoleted.

Map Making, one of C-evo's "Early Advances" (not needing Science)

Prerequisite advances: Alphabet

Allows or enables: The Lighthouse; Longboats; naval units Has military or other value: Adds 1 trade to tiles with river Obsoletes:

Further advances that require it: Seafaring