Maritime Empire

Sea and sky

Weather and storms, currents, seasons, and the animals and birds that share the sea.

Sea and sky
Sea and sky

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WeatherStorms, in saves founded with Moderate or Harsh storms. They form in their real basins and seasons by the calendar, each with a name used in... Rough seasSouth of 60°S, ships wear twice as fast. The fuel check before leaving port and route ranges allow for it, so some long Antarctic legs... Seasonal closuresIn saves founded with Seasonal closures, from company level 6 (with breakdowns and storms, so a new company, which always starts on 1... Ocean currents28 of the world's major surface currents: the Florida Current, Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift; the Canary, North and South Equatorial,... Sea animalsJust for looking at (they never affect ships): 28 pods of 8 species to start with (see below; 112 pods of 54 species now, with the fish,... WildlifeEvery land animal and every bird is an individual that lives on the map for good, just for looking at, except that the birds following a... BirdsJust for looking at (they never affect ships). Every bird is a permanent map object: one of the wildlife's colonies' birds (see Wildlife),... SoundThe World map has its ambience, every sound scaled by the zoom the way Crusader Kings 3 does it: near silent with the whole world in view,...