i tried to make a map with this configuration:
Thanks for the detailed report! Why did you set Islands to Few? With no continents, that means there will be almost no landmass (two large islands and three small islands). I can imagine why it crashes. There isn't enough land on this map to find start positions for all the civilizations.
That might explain why I can't reproduce any of the crashes people have been reporting: I've been testing in world builder, with the assumption that as far as the map script part is concerned there's no difference (world builder even does start positions, after all). But I've also created several games with this map script, with no crashes. So I just wish I could repdroduce. I'm guessing it has to do with start positions, because when it did crash on me, it was before I edited the arguments passed to the start positioner.
I guess I have my work cut out for me, trying to crash the game with maps without enough land. The annoying part about this is, when it crashed before from start positioner problems, there was absolutely no error reporting. The Lua log just ends after saying that it's creating the start plot database.
Since there's no fixing the game's ungraceful behaviour when the start positioner doesn't get what it wants, probably the only solution is to add some padded cell logic to my script, so that if users choose a combination of options that will probably crash the start positioner, the script will either reduce the number of civs (if that's possible), or override the user-selected options to create a map that will give the civs enough room.
First of all a bunch of barbarions spamming always in the same places.
Second, I'm playng with Poundmaker, and seems that instead of just a couple of tiles, it acquires all the trade route tiles.
Third, instead of boosting state workforce after building the first distrect, in my case a campus, it boosted writing.
I'm using various mod but nothing was wrong until I tried this one.
I struggle to imagine how bugs two and three might be caused by a map script. The barbarians could be caused by a map that has more land, or more deserts, tundra, and snow, depending on what options you selected. I played on an All Land map with Arrakis rainfall, for example, and the barbarians are a constant problem because almost the entire map is desert, and there's too much land for the number of civilizations to cover.
