Africa and Australia?

[ZombieFriedNuts]

I have just been looking and was wandering, they mention Europe, America and the Indies but nothing about Africa because if you have the indies wont you have to go round Africa and didn’t they start trading (er slaves?) and colonising in this time and as for Australia im not quite sure is it part of the Indies? Wikipedia says not.

[Sir Beane]

Australia isn't considered part of the indies and unfortunately won't be in the game.

As for Africa. North Africa is in the game, just like in previous games. The game will deal with sailing around Africa by having 'transition zones'. The idea is that you sail a ship to a certain area and after a while it appears in a different part of the map.

First you send a ship to the Canary Islands, then to the Ivory Coast, then to Madagascar, and then on to India.

Aside from that I don't think any more of Africa will appear in game. Maybe an expansion will feature it more?

[Fisherking]

There seems to be a box (for lack of another term) for the Spice Islands. I wonder if there are others for China the Philippines and others?

[YouHaveRecieved]

I doubt China will be featured at all.

[PBI]

Personally I am hoping that one of the first mods to come out for Empire will be one adding South America, Africa and Australia to the campaign map (and maybe South East Asia too, although China and Japan may be a bridge too far). Hopefully simply adding large swathes of land to the campaign map will be easier this time around, especially since CA have announced there will no longer be an upper limit to the number of provinces.

Oh, for a nice spiffy WYSIWYG campaign map editor to be included with the game!

[lenin96]

especially since CA have announced there will no longer be an upper limit to the number of provinces.

Oh, for a nice spiffy WYSIWYG campaign map editor to be included with the game!

A campaign map editor will make it so much easier for people making new campaign maps, and no hardcoded province limit sounds great as well.