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- Dec 28, 2005
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Hi everyone!!
Once upon a time I played Earth18 with all my buddies online. We would have epic battles through out the ages but then something happened.
Some of the good players would take rome (or any power civ on the map, england,persia,china,japan,egypt) while all the other good players would take hard civs to play on the map like aztec russia mali and arabia. While any of the other civs would be taken by new players to the map.
The one good player in rome would kill all the new players (noobs for lack of a better term) and AI in europe and egypt before 200 AD
this basically ended the game cause the good palyer would have science and production far better then the other civs battling it out on the map (asia, middle east, america).
Then the dreaded (but awsome game) warlords came out. So people created the earth 24 map which included the new civs and traits which was awsome!!!!! But the map required the mod which unfortuanatly most people online dont have.
Me and my online buddies played earth 24 for a few days but we felt that themap had lost popularity for being unbalanced and it required the mod.
So we were forced back to the random map generator. Eventually the europe map came out
my buddies and I loved the map and still do but one thing bothered me. It was toooooooo balanced. Everyone got copper/iron/horses/insane food resources in europe.
Somehow i deduced in my brain that if everyone got the same resources then if all the player's were equal (most of my friends are) then the map would be stagnet. This bothered me yet again.
Now after playing europe for 2 months or so. I find myself longing for earth 24 again. So I decided, to increase popularity back into my buddies, I would take rhye's map (big thumbs up and credit to Rhye for making earth 24) is to balance the map.
2 of my friends tried balancing the map but one didnt have enough changes and one made it like europe! so i did it myself from scratch.
I immediately decided that the celts had to go (just not enough room in earth) so it became earth 23.
I've finished the first prototype of the map. Here is the link to the map in the DB (database) Put the map in warlords/publicmaps/earth24/privatemaps
you also have to copy it into warlords/civ4saves/worldbuilder
From there you should be able to load it with earth24 mod form scenarios
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2881
I didnt make to many changes to the map (like giving everyone copper/iron/horse in europe) but the changes I made are key in the long and short term.
Here's the spoiler of all the changes i could remember.
some general changes i made were like removing almost all huts (still some around) everyone gets a warrior not scout in begining (germany can survive now!)
If you notice any other changes i made that i forgot to list then plz post them would be much appreciated.
remember this map is made for multiplayer online, you can play it regular but it's up to you.
Also you require Rhye's earth 24 mod to play this map (i'm trying to get it like the europe map where u dont have to load mod everytime to play it).
Lastly i am testing this map for the early rushes like Rome vs France and Perisa vs India etc.... So i will post a second prototype (already in progress) when i think I got all the bugs worked out. And any suggestions are welcome so feel free to post
P.S. excuse my bad/fast typing errors
Once upon a time I played Earth18 with all my buddies online. We would have epic battles through out the ages but then something happened.
Some of the good players would take rome (or any power civ on the map, england,persia,china,japan,egypt) while all the other good players would take hard civs to play on the map like aztec russia mali and arabia. While any of the other civs would be taken by new players to the map.
The one good player in rome would kill all the new players (noobs for lack of a better term) and AI in europe and egypt before 200 AD
this basically ended the game cause the good palyer would have science and production far better then the other civs battling it out on the map (asia, middle east, america).
Then the dreaded (but awsome game) warlords came out. So people created the earth 24 map which included the new civs and traits which was awsome!!!!! But the map required the mod which unfortuanatly most people online dont have.
Me and my online buddies played earth 24 for a few days but we felt that themap had lost popularity for being unbalanced and it required the mod.
So we were forced back to the random map generator. Eventually the europe map came out
my buddies and I loved the map and still do but one thing bothered me. It was toooooooo balanced. Everyone got copper/iron/horses/insane food resources in europe.Somehow i deduced in my brain that if everyone got the same resources then if all the player's were equal (most of my friends are) then the map would be stagnet. This bothered me yet again.
Now after playing europe for 2 months or so. I find myself longing for earth 24 again. So I decided, to increase popularity back into my buddies, I would take rhye's map (big thumbs up and credit to Rhye for making earth 24) is to balance the map.
2 of my friends tried balancing the map but one didnt have enough changes and one made it like europe! so i did it myself from scratch.
I immediately decided that the celts had to go (just not enough room in earth) so it became earth 23.
I've finished the first prototype of the map. Here is the link to the map in the DB (database) Put the map in warlords/publicmaps/earth24/privatemaps
you also have to copy it into warlords/civ4saves/worldbuilder
From there you should be able to load it with earth24 mod form scenarios
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2881
I didnt make to many changes to the map (like giving everyone copper/iron/horse in europe) but the changes I made are key in the long and short term.
Here's the spoiler of all the changes i could remember.
some general changes i made were like removing almost all huts (still some around) everyone gets a warrior not scout in begining (germany can survive now!)
If you notice any other changes i made that i forgot to list then plz post them would be much appreciated.
Spoiler :
remember this map is made for multiplayer online, you can play it regular but it's up to you.
Also you require Rhye's earth 24 mod to play this map (i'm trying to get it like the europe map where u dont have to load mod everytime to play it).
Lastly i am testing this map for the early rushes like Rome vs France and Perisa vs India etc.... So i will post a second prototype (already in progress) when i think I got all the bugs worked out. And any suggestions are welcome so feel free to post
P.S. excuse my bad/fast typing errors
