Just wanted to get an idea of what people want for the map.

9 tiles; otherwise its harder to do resources.

I'm really not sure. Couldn't the resources be 'moons' in a way?

True, actually, that's a better idea. If the resources are different types of moons, it would work quite well. But, at least make it 4 tiles, as there would be no ground combat otherwise. I still think that 9 tiles would be good, too.

My only worry is about map size. I have a 1-tile planets map I tinker with and it's 64x84. That gives us 128x168 with 4-tile planets or 192x336 with 9-tile planets. 4-tile may be best...

Agreed. 4 tiles is my vote too. Too bad that I can't change my vote on the poll.

Resource 'moons' might be an interesting project graphically. Coloured moons or make it look like the whole moon is filled with the resource?

I dunno. Maybe have a combination. For certain resources, it wouldn't work for a coloured moon. Banthas or Nerfs, for example. (Nerf Herder, anyone?) But I think that metal resources should be coloured, while 'living' resources should look like they are on the moon. Or be only on the actual planets.

I'll work on a 4-tile map. I'm off tomorrow and hopefully I can get it done and post for y'all to look at. If not, it'll probably have to wait until next Monday or Tuesday.

Nice. Good luck with it.

Tried a 9-tile planet map. Can't get it to run... I think my comp just can't handle the sheer # of tiles involved (48384). 4-tile is being tweaked.

why not use the Final Frontier Template from BTS to create the maps?

This thread was started before we knew we were working on BtS. Inter-galactic maps will probably be based on FF, but some scenarios are planet-based.

sorry, then. i had just never seen this issue resolved.

Officially, it hasn't been.

Does FF have ground units at all?

9 tiles are good so that there are actualy battles on land like in the movies,:) because in some of the civ 2 star wars mods there are only 1 square citys so that land units were only used for captureing planets:(

that would be the point of scenarios, i guess.

or the player could be given a choice at the beginning: space map, or a planetary one.

I believe that four tile planets, with 1 tile moons accessible by space ships or building a building on the planet that the moon belongs to