Wiill a real earth map ruin the way the game is supposed to be played? Whats your thoughts?

To me it will. I play earth maps in Civ only with real life starting locations (so Chinese start in China, Egyptians in Egypt and so on). In Humankind cultures are chosen and nothing will prevent guys in Mexico from choosing Greek culture and founding Athens there. 

true but if all start in Africa and wander out from there. Well maybee that doesnt work as the Americas only got connection thrue Kamchatka from asia to Modern Alaska.

I’ve been thinking way too much about this topic actually. I think culture transitions would have to be somewhat predetermined to accommodate for historical(ish) accuracy in a historical-start map. Which is easy in some regards (Phoenicians -> Carthaginians) but more difficult for most others. Also need to know how many players on map at one time. If only 8 like in Lucy, that makes it more challenging to pull off. Independent Peoples could help fill gaps if we can select them to be historical (or mod them).  I hope it could all work out, would definitely be amazing to have a earth or regional maps or true historical scenarios. The issue is that no one area of the map had the continuity of cultures over the eras for it to fully make sense unless you pretend that, e.g. “let’s just say the Olmec are the Scythians in my Europe map”. I’m hoping mods will be flexible enough to allow us to address this with custom cultures (or at the very least renaming a culture to help with the historical pretending). Over time too maybe we’ll get “missing link” DLC cultures to fill out different historical culture “runs”, (e.g. classical and medieval Chinese cultures), which will help in historical maps. 

swedewolf wrote:

Wiill a real earth map ruin the way the game is supposed to be played? Whats your thoughts?

For me a real earth map is the real question. If humankind don't do it like a central theme, the next civ game will just take over. There is an opportunity of making something bigger than just a shuffle story of humankind with absolutely no sense in the past or the future... People will get bored in less than one year. True starting location story mode is the way to go!  :)