The Map, Tilted?

[lobf]

While I thought that the idea in intself is quite neat; the way it works out in a game as EB.... I am not to convinced. For one thing some of our factions would experience some pretty inconvenient geography as a result of projecting a sphere onto a rectangle like that.

For RTR this isn't that big an issue, AFAIK, as they focus more on what you call the 'civilised' world; but EB has a fair few factions more on the 'outer-spheres' of the map. Not too practical from what I saw on the screenshots to go for a 'tilted' map then...

I don't understand what this means. Specifically how the AI knows/cares the map is tilted.