Distinction between PF2 and PF3

[MantaRevan]

What are the major differences in the map scripts and what they tend to generate? And when I start a new game, what reasons would I have to chose one over the other? On a related note, which one do you prefer, and why?

 

[Thunderbrd]

I can't say much about PW2 vs PW3 but I do prefer Perfect Mongoose as it now allows us to set more rivers and resources. It also seems to present the best terrain balance.

Despite what others may say about having a lot of resources on the map, I feel that with the vast amount of resources we have in this game, its better to have more and thus greater chances of them all being represented than having a more 'vanilla' resource count.

 

[God-Emperor]

As the version numbers increase, the climate simulation gets better and the basic terrain type generator probably, on average, gives better results too (the ocean/land/hills/peaks generation). The order of development was PW -> PW2f -> PM3.1. Some people like the various peculiarities from the earlier map scripts, so they are still useful.

The C2C Perfect Mongoose 3.1 is modified beyond the regular PM 3.1. Most (or all) of the changes AIAndy made to it are now in the regular PM 3.2 mapscript and represent most of the changes between the regular PM 3.1 and 3.2. So C2C PM 3.1 is mostly a match for regular PM 3.2, plus it has the river and resource quantity options (which are not in regular PM 3.2, or 3.1 for that matter) although C2C's does not have the option of using the weird climate generation system from regular 3.1 (regular 3.2 has this option) which was actually hexagonal in nature (it was adapted from one made for Civ5 and it only considered 6 of the neighboring plots instead of all 8).

 

[strategyonly]

As the version numbers increase, the climate simulation gets better and the basic terrain type generator probably, on average, gives better results too (the ocean/land/hills/peaks generation). The order of development was PW -> PW2f -> PM3.1. Some people like the various peculiarities from the earlier map scripts, so they are still useful.

The C2C Perfect Mongoose 3.1 is modified beyond the regular PM 3.1. Most (or all) of the changes AIAndy made to it are now in the regular PM 3.2 mapscript and represent most of the changes between the regular PM 3.1 and 3.2. So C2C PM 3.1 is mostly a match for regular PM 3.2, plus it has the river and resource quantity options (which are not in regular PM 3.2, or 3.1 for that matter) although C2C's does not have the option of using the weird climate generation system from regular 3.1 (regular 3.2 has this option) which was actually hexagonal in nature (it was adapted from one made for Civ5 and it only considered 6 of the neighboring plots instead of all 8).

Very interesting stuff, nice explanation