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This is the issue with having so much [i]land[/i] available; it makes the map artificially huge and unless there is a concerted effort to concentrate a lot of civilizations in the same general area, you end up like in this RP where we're 20 pages in and there's still been very little meaningful contact between most of the big hubs of civilization.
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Lack of contact between major civilisations is meant to be a negative? Human civilisation was a good 4,500 years in (very arbitrary, we could pick a higher number, but as a minimum) before there was any meaningful contact between China and Europe, even between India and China - and they literally share a border (impassable mountain of course). So long as civilisations somewhat local to each other interact ICly, however briefly, it's fine. Most official contact at this point should involve conquest anyway.

EdIt: lack of contact has nothing to do with 'we're 30 pages in an no contact!' it's just a matter of most civilisations not being at a point in development where external civs don't interest them. Only the Mesathalassa civs have had meaningful interactions that don't involve just war. The rest (Alefpria, dwarves, Xerxes, reborn-mermaid-people-forgot-their-names) just haven't. In the case of Eskandars and Dawn's Arcon civ, there's been no interaction AT ALL. Other than being pelted with ants by Jvan.