Bigger Huge Maps for Communitu_79a

[MariusMagnus]

Tried out Giant Earth-like with 42 civs. Got to around turn 300 (industrial era with my other settings) before the game just started crashing every turn, so unfortunately seems like it is not within the capabilities of my PC to handle. 1.5x seems much more stable at least so far and I'm curious if a simple ram upgrade would do the trick, but irregardless, good stuff!

 

[jarcast2]

Thanks for that info, however, I should have been much more specific with what the issue I was really having. If I play Gaia's Sapiens with Perfectworld(updated), I've had several games where I've started on a relatively small island. With Vox Populi, same script, I never start on an island. I actually like that possibly to be there though, as I don't mind the handicap.

With that said, I seem to recall reading somewhere that Vox Populi rewrites the CivPlacement algorithm, somewhere. Is that the case? Is that why I never have island starts with Vox Populi?

VP has its own AssignStartingPlots.lua file that places civs and city states regardless of the mapscript, so most likely that is the reason.

Tried out Giant Earth-like with 42 civs. Got to around turn 300 (industrial era with my other settings) before the game just started crashing every turn, so unfortunately seems like it is not within the capabilities of my PC to handle. 1.5x seems much more stable at least so far and I'm curious if a simple ram upgrade would do the trick, but irregardless, good stuff!

Unfortunately ram upgrades are useless. You may play the game on the NASA supercomputer or on the CERN one, it's indifferent. The bottleneck is in the structure of the game that is 32-bit and allocates max 4 GB ram if I recall correctly.
In order to reduce the strain and the probability of a crash, I use this unit scaling mod with the option of single unit graphic so that the pc has to load less units models. I use also the quick turns mod that cuts the moving animations of units making the game faster.

 

[Tekamthi]

In order to reduce the strain and the probability of a crash

It's an unpopular opinion around here but playing no EUI seems to have marked improvement on stability as well.

 

[MariusMagnus]

Unfortunately ram upgrades are useless. You may play the game on the NASA supercomputer or on the CERN one, it's indifferent. The bottleneck is in the structure of the game that is 32-bit and allocates max 4 GB ram if I recall correctly.
In order to reduce the strain and the probability of a crash, I use this unit scaling mod with the option of single unit graphic so that the pc has to load less units models. I use also the quick turns mod that cuts the moving animations of units making the game faster.

I imagine strategic view or unit scaling would help but it's not something I think I'm willing to compromise on at the moment. So for now I'll just stick to the smaller map options, again 1.5x my PC seems to handle much better.

 

[jarcast2]

Update for Vox Populi 4.13.
Download in first post.

 

[azum4roll]

Just noticed I didn't advance the Communitu_79a version number for 4.13... Oh well.

 

[jarcast2]

Just checked if the mod needs an update: the Communitu mapscript was untouched so the mod is still compatible with 4.18.3

 

[Tekamthi]

@anastazjasz re: your question about maps... see thread for EUI discussion

 

[jpaolini]

• x1.25 (109x74), that is 25% bigger in terms of area than normal Huge map.
• x1.5 (119x81).
• x2 (138x93).
• x2.7 or Giant Earth-like (160x108), the same area size of namesake map from YnAEMP.

The math in the list above does not make sense to me. Can someone help me understand how the x1.25 map which has 109x74 [8,066] hex tiles can be "25% bigger than than the normal Huge map" 128×80 (10,240)?

 

[jarcast2]

The math in the list above does not make sense to me. Can someone help me understand how the x1.25 map which has 109x74 [8,066] hex tiles can be "25% bigger than than the normal Huge map" 128×80 (10,240)?

It's simple. In the original Communitu_79a mapscript when you select huge (x1 in my mapscript), the map size is {97, 66} not {128, 80}. It doesn't use basic game sizes.

 

[azum4roll]

The map size is balanced towards having a similar tiles per civ ratio.