Map towers vs auto map vs no map

[SvennoJ]

JakDaSnack said:

SvennoJ said:

Is that because of the challenge of getting to the top and unlocking a fast travel point from which you can glide a long way?
Or is because it reveals all the terrain around you?

Everything!! I love the challenge of climbing to the top of the tower, the joy of unlocking that piece of the map and the excitement of scouting out the area to see what I'm gonna do next.  It's a very rewarding piece of the game.  Auto map might be more convenient but a lot less rerawrding.

To me unlocking that piece of the map is actually more like a big spoiler and reduces the excitement of scouting out the area. Maybe because every single tree is already visible on the map and every little area is already named. I feel more excitement every time I venture out of the already mapped area into the unknown. Yet since it doesn't fill in it's even harder to tell where I've been.

Perhaps it's a different style of exploring. The joy of exploring gets taken away a bit when I'm following a map. I always loved playing on random maps in Civilization and map out the shorelines in little boats at the start, drop scouts off to map the land. Automap is much more rewarding to me.