A harsh desert (or cold) map using Planet Generator

[God-Emperor]

So IF i want ALOOOOT more grasslands and better terrain than desert and tundra? it would read??

Give these a try. They should not eliminate the "bad" terrains, just reduce it quite a bit.

SaltFlatsPercent3 = 0.01
DunesPercent3 = 0.04
DesertPercent3 = 0.08
ScrubPercent3 = 0.12
RockyPercent3 = 0.16
BarrenPercent3 = 0.22
PlainsPercent3 = 0.5
GrasslandPercent3 = 0.82
LushPercent3 = 0.92
MuddyPercent3 = 0.98

That should make for a very luxurious map most of the time, with a relatively huge food potential for the extra grassland and lush.

To deal with the polar zone tundra range you need to adjust these:

		#What temperature will be considered cold enough to be tundra. Temperatures range
		#from coldest 0.0 to hottest 1.0.
		self.TundraTemp3 = 0.1
		self.PermafrostTemp3 = 0.05

Setting TundraTemp3 to 0.05 and PermafrostTemp3 to 0.025 will cut the "reach" from the top and bottom of the map for these cold terrains in half, more or less (the temperatures may not be linear across the map, and there are may also be altitude effects).

Note that this assumes you are using the PW3 climate system. If you pick the PW2 climate system when generating the map it uses the ones that end in "2" (SaltFlatsPercent2 instead of SaltFlatsPercent3, etc.) so you'd have to change those as well.

With changes like these some resources will be hard to find, and might not show up at all. Mammoths will be rare, as will any desert related resources (peyote, and probably also donkeys are two examples).

 

[strategyonly]

Give these a try. They should not eliminate the "bad" terrains, just reduce it quite a bit.

SaltFlatsPercent3 = 0.01
DunesPercent3 = 0.04
DesertPercent3 = 0.08
ScrubPercent3 = 0.12
RockyPercent3 = 0.16
BarrenPercent3 = 0.22
PlainsPercent3 = 0.5
GrasslandPercent3 = 0.82
LushPercent3 = 0.92
MuddyPercent3 = 0.98

That should make for a very luxurious map most of the time, with a relatively huge food potential for the extra grassland and lush.

To deal with the polar zone tundra range you need to adjust these:

		#What temperature will be considered cold enough to be tundra. Temperatures range
		#from coldest 0.0 to hottest 1.0.
		self.TundraTemp3 = 0.1
		self.PermafrostTemp3 = 0.05

Setting TundraTemp3 to 0.05 and PermafrostTemp3 to 0.025 will cut the "reach" from the top and bottom of the map for these cold terrains in half, more or less (the temperatures may not be linear across the map, and there are may also be altitude effects).

Note that this assumes you are using the PW3 climate system. If you pick the PW2 climate system when generating the map it uses the ones that end in "2" (SaltFlatsPercent2 instead of SaltFlatsPercent3, etc.) so you'd have to change those as well.

With changes like these some resources will be hard to find, and might not show up at all. Mammoths will be rare, as will any desert related resources (peyote, and probably also donkeys are two examples).

Thx, i will try it out, i dont like alot of desert or tundra or stuff like that, plains are ok but . . .

 

[Vendayn]

Well, now I know why I barely get desert.

Twice now (30 minute wait, 20 minute wait...nearly an hour to wait)...its given me a ton of ocean and I am surrounded by islands and arrive on an island. Dunno why as the pictures I've seen it is more of a continent, but that was my problem yesterday when I had a bunch of lush and stuff. So much ocean and water. I get FAR more ocean than in planet generator (which gives me more desert). The mongoose map is only good for desert (when it makes a more land-based map.).

But I set percent to land for Mongoose...

#Percent of land vs. water
self.landPercent = 0.6889 # LM - Exact Real Earth Value

And it just made it crash at start after it finished loading.

Too bad I'm stuck with Mongoose if I want a desert map...I like the customization of Planet Generator a lot more. But its broken for hot climates.

Ah well, I'm done messing with this map. I'm going to just make a really cold map with Planet Generator, personally like that map a lot more. Plus it loads on immense in only 5 minutes (sometimes up to 10.) Mongoose takes like 30-50 minutes to load. I'm done messing with it. After over 40 hours, I'm done. Obviously none of these maps can make a proper desert map. Only mongoose when it doesn't give me tons of lush terrain, but I personally don't like that map.

 

[Faustmouse]

I created a Desert Map. It's in the SVN now.

Note that I just made it and it might use some balancing. Have fun with it!
And when you play it, please tell me if there is a civ that is always run a way and if there are some that are always the loser.

 

[strategyonly]

Give these a try. They should not eliminate the "bad" terrains, just reduce it quite a bit.

SaltFlatsPercent3 = 0.01
DunesPercent3 = 0.04
DesertPercent3 = 0.08
ScrubPercent3 = 0.12
RockyPercent3 = 0.16
BarrenPercent3 = 0.22
PlainsPercent3 = 0.5
GrasslandPercent3 = 0.82
LushPercent3 = 0.92
MuddyPercent3 = 0.98

That should make for a very luxurious map most of the time, with a relatively huge food potential for the extra grassland and lush.

To deal with the polar zone tundra range you need to adjust these:

		#What temperature will be considered cold enough to be tundra. Temperatures range
		#from coldest 0.0 to hottest 1.0.
		self.TundraTemp3 = 0.1
		self.PermafrostTemp3 = 0.05

Setting TundraTemp3 to 0.05 and PermafrostTemp3 to 0.025 will cut the "reach" from the top and bottom of the map for these cold terrains in half, more or less (the temperatures may not be linear across the map, and there are may also be altitude effects).

Note that this assumes you are using the PW3 climate system. If you pick the PW2 climate system when generating the map it uses the ones that end in "2" (SaltFlatsPercent2 instead of SaltFlatsPercent3, etc.) so you'd have to change those as well.

With changes like these some resources will be hard to find, and might not show up at all. Mammoths will be rare, as will any desert related resources (peyote, and probably also donkeys are two examples).

Was just going over this and its waaaay to much desert yet, and i even lowered it more yet, Help is needed thx.
I hate desert and barren etc etc etc. . . SO