Thanks man! I have almost always created my own maps since the game first came out. But I have always added copper, fishing fleet, Newsweek and religious units to the rules. And infested the map with barbarian camps! My test 1, test 2, test 3, etc all shows up in the civ content. But adding islands and terrain to the map editor still shows only 160x160 or less. I have been trying for a 320x240 primarily small islands. My games have all been successful w/very few crashes that I immediately went back and changed and fixed them, but I do not recall trying to play a much larger map. If I play this game (test ") in civ content at 320x240 (as it shows) I only designed a 160x160 in the map edtor with many hours work, what is going to be in those extra 160x80 terrain tiles? Or will it crash when I get there?
Is this true? I knew you could change things like the Culture-and Domination limits on the 'Choose your Civ' screen, but I did not know this!Under "edit civilization 3 rules", go to the "world sizes" tab. Huge shows 160x160. Raising this doesn't make a difference, you still only have a 159x159 map whether it is in civ content or scenarios. Sometimes even smaller! Like 149x149!
So of course I had start up Civ3 to test it, but I can't figure out how it's done? I've only got 6 options under 'World Size' (but AFAIK, the 6th option, 'Random', just picks one of the 5 default sizes, Tiny to Huge).
Do tell...?
Nothing serious, man. This guy was a genious!
I know (kinda sorta!) how to use the Editor, but Puppeteer said you could have a custom map-size just by going through the "New Game" option (i.e. an otherwise unmodded epic-game). Still not sure how that's done.
genius! Older generation that knew how to do this has moved on. But I an still stuck on it. Heck, I was nearly 40 when this game came out! If you look at the co ordinance numbers, they just start dramatically jumping up as you increase the map size. I use a plains tile and count as I go, always 159x159 or less. How is it possible to fit more tiles in the same size squares? Sounds like bankers to me!
This would be great, man! But I cannot find your link here.For a longer time Civ 3 modders thought, that 362x362 is the maximum map size for Civ 3 maps. El Mencey created such a map a long time ago. In this post Quintillus showed, that the tile limit for Civ 3 is 65,535 tiles and posted about a 420 x 312 map: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/earth-420-x-312-wip.652386/
Even the old TeTurkan map was 256x256.
My mods CCM1 and CCM2 hold a random map size of 250x250. Earlier versions of CCM1 had much bigger map sizes, but to have fun on such big maps needs frequently a lot of additional settings. Per example, there must be enough cities to fill such a big map (the NCL patch is not working well), the trade system should be cut down to avoid 'monster' turn times, the speed of ships and the range of aircraft must be adjusted, otherwise your sailing ships will face battleships when they arrive at their destination, only to name some of the problems of big maps.
Please play CCM2 and you will see, that 159x159 is not the limit for a C3C map size.
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Actually I was 41 when this came out. But am still a kid. Dont ever grow up, or you'll just get boring. My pa fought the germans across Italy, he was in his 30's at this time. He always told me this. He died as a kid at 99 1/2!
So of course I had start up Civ3 to test it, but I can't figure out how it's done? I've only got 6 options under 'World Size' (but AFAIK, the 6th option, 'Random', just picks one of the 5 default sizes, Tiny to Huge).
Do tell...?
Ah well, no harm no foul. So, back to modding, then...
