AtlantaMarty
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Are there any plans to double the size of the map? Cause I think it would make the game more fun. But I understand how hard modding involving RFC maps is, so if the answer is no, that's fine.
Double map size?
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Unfortunately that would be a terrible amount of work. Just about every RFC effect (stability, spawns, flips, automatic city names, etc) is tied to specific coordinates on the map, which means any change in map size would mean rewriting all of that completely (and take four times more work than the first time around, presumably).
It would also cause a lot of crashes and slowdowns in the late game, probably.
It would also cause a lot of crashes and slowdowns in the late game, probably.
AtlantaMarty
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hahaha I meant double the length of the sides.
I am currently working on a modmodmod of SoI, that involves expanding the map 15 tiles to the west (and possibly 5 tiles north and south, i havent decided) and i know how hard RFC modding is. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=511654
After I finish with SoI, would you mind if I made a modmodmod of this with a bigger map? and if i did, would you include it?
DC123456789
Deity
This would be an absolute nightmare to balance and get to run, in my opinion. There's a reason why all the Giant Earth Map RFCs have all been abandoned...
I would suggest you using the GEM map instead, it is way bigger than RFC, and very accurate. You just need to import and adjust all the RFC-DoC constants and elements that's tied to coordinates like City Name map, Stability, Religion Spread etc.... it will saves you from wasting your time to create a new map
I think it shouldn't be included to the main DoC modmod, because unless the computer is awesome, it'll very hard to play in big map.. especially in late game. However, you could release this as a "modmod to RFC that's inspired to DoC", much like DoC's sister
It may be better to use global coodinates instead of game coordinates in the code, the same way it uses years instead of game turns. This will give the ability of multiple map escalations, like the multiple time escalations that exist now.
Adouble quatrible idiot map (every tile is replaced be the same four times) is quickly feasible IMO.
A
The Diocletian
Fire Fly
And then you realize ancient turn times are 1 minute.
A quickly way to quadruplicate without any (or many) side effects is changing the coordinates functions like this:
getXY(city)=
....(the orignal code)
X=X/2
Y=Y/2
return X, Y
placeResource(X,Y)=
X=X*2
Y=Y*2
....(the original code)
Replace any tile of the map with four of the same, change the rule of founding cities.
Doubling the movement capabilities of all units (optional, maybe only for the normal speed).
It is a lot work already, but IMO it isn't the amount as much as originally imagined.
Anything else it should be taken into account?
Of course I wouldn't mind.
AtlantaMarty
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Sorry for the bump of this thread - but If I ever do get around to doing this, I will probably use the RFC Classical World Map and just expand it to make it cover the whole world. I like the map and it seems like it's the right scale for DoC.
Just one question. Does anyone know what projection that map uses?
Just one question. Does anyone know what projection that map uses?
They work very very well in the games I've played. They don't break immersion at all, and I got used to them fairly quickly.
Have they been used in mods other than C2C?
AtlantaMarty
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What is a viewport?
And would anybody be interested in playing DoC on a worldwide version of the RFCCW map?
And would anybody be interested in playing DoC on a worldwide version of the RFCCW map?
ales_
Heir
Maybe I would.
yurisusuki
Hope, Faith and love
The problem is, the incredible hard work to make a bigger map..and probably will be very ''heavy'' for some PC's
But good Lucky
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