LOL guess you can tell a lot about a guy by his desktop. (I just got it and have played once online so far (TH3))
Anyway I'll try to help some of you out with your questions, right now I'm not a school and on my parents computer so I don't have it right infront of me.
To answer one question.
TO get it off Africa you have to type in Log and Lad coordinates, I forget the link for where I found mine, but if you look in the screen shot you'll see the coordinates for Columbus, OH

Anway type those in as Parameters and it'll switch over. see how I have parameters -longitude 40.0028 -laditude -83.0164
hope this helps.
ask more questions and I'll try to help
I know there is a way to add markers on the planet and also stallite paths
for those of you who have it working so far try to add the parameter -markerfile earth and/or -satfile iss (the satfile tracks the international space station

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