Final Earth Map 2016-10-05

[Vonotar]

OK, I think I've finally cracked it!

Firstly I should point out that the Map included in this package is identical to Marla's v1.10. The difference is I've now added a proper installation routine. This has been tested on Windows 95/98 & XP.

Download the attachment below, it's a zip with one single file inside. I had to zip the file since I can't post .exe's direct to the forum. Extract the file (to anywhere) and run it. The installation will ask for your Civilization III directory and then install itself.

Once it is installed you will have a new folder in your Start Menu called “Marla Singer’s Scenarios”. In this will be two shortcuts, one is the Read-me file (Word format), the other shortcut is the tool for correcting player locations

This version automatically uninstalls versions 1.09 1.11 & 1.12 (all of which were my messes). It doesn’t uninstall any of Marla’s official versions.

As before, start a game like normal with Marla's Map. Save it straight away as FIX.SAV, then run the player location tool off the start menu (you don't need to quit Civ3). Once the tool has finished load up FIXED.SAV in Civilization, and that's it!

Email me at aloisia-vonotar@lastlands.org with your comments (complaints) and that will help me to produce a better product.

Hope you find this straight-forward and easy to use. Happy Civing!

Aloisia Vonotar

UPDATE: v1.13 Goes Official!! Download it now from page one of this thread!

 

[Marla_Singer]

Many Thanx Vonotar, everything works fine. I've put it on the first page of the map.

Now we'll finally be able to talk again about ressources and terrains allocation

 

[Vonotar]

Originally posted by Marla_Singer
Many Thanx Vonotar, everything works fine. I've put it on the first page of the map.
Thanx, I'll leave it to you to update the forums on Apolyton, every time I try to go there I get 'page not found' errors

 

[Endureth]

This is Marla's map v1.10 with some changes. I talked about this in a previous post but wanted to actually make the changes and put it up for review so you could see exactly what I meant. I think it turned out pretty well.

My goal was to make Europe a little more playable and have some more "personality" without straying far from the realistic layout of the world. I increased the size of all of Europe based on this map I grabbed off the net (see pic). The only thing about Europe I did not increase was the size of Britian (Britian is actually a lot more true to size now).

I keeped (to the best of my ability) the exact same resource Marla had in her original Europe so and touched up the top of italy and southern France.

You can actually see Normandy Beach. Denmark is a little larger, Iceland has been scooted a little more out to sea and Greenland has been moved further north and fattened a little. The size of Finland/Norway has been greatly increased and the area around Moscow is more friendly to Russia's growth.

Although I haven't playtested this yet, Rome, Germany, France and Greece have a little more room to play which should make a big difference if you're actually playing one of those Civ's.

There are a couple of observations I made though. When looking at the mini map and the end game map, Europe does look "slightly" too large but when you're actually playing the game looking at the terrain everything looks great.

Let me know what you think. Below is a picture of the map I used and the next post is a picture of the map. Notice how big Finland Norway actually is and how far Russia comes over. This gave Russia a lot more room.

I can E-mail it to both Marla and Vonotar if you'd like so you can look at it up close. It's pretty sweet. Just let me know and I'll mail it to you both.

Endureth

 

[Endureth]

Here is what it looks like..

 

[Marla_Singer]

Thanx Endureth for your changes, you could put it on the thread so that everyone who wants to test it can do so.
I haven't seen your changes already but I want to apologize about the fact that nothing changed on the map between the 1.10 and the 1.13 version.

It's just that on last days we tried to make the way to put correct starting locations more user friendly. (well "we"... Vonotar did all)
That's why I haven't changed nothing on the map during that time.

But now as everything works, we will finally debate about the map properly again.

Go back soon... will check your change

 

[Vonotar]

Well It's my fault that it took me 4 version numbers (including two versions of 1.12) to get the installation working on all versions of Windows. I'm sure that while I've been driving everybody up the wall with that, Marla has been testing possible alterations to the Map.

In the future new releases will be something of a joint effort, Marla will continue her excellent work with the Map and I'll look after packaging it up as a self extractor. All future new versions will be available at the top of this thread and will all be self extracting/installing.

So continue directing you ideas and comments about the Map to Marla, but feel free to let me know if you encounter any problems with the installation.

Yes I had to edit this..... I never get anything right first time!!! lol

 

[Endureth]

This is what I've done to the map so far. Mostly just the Europe stuff.

I'm sure it needs some work as far as resources go but I'll let you all descuss that. Marla, if you like this you can make it a part of what you've already done.

I think africa could be shifted south some and there area where the USA and Canada meet could be fattened a little also. I plan on seeing how I could do that next.

The main reason I want to help is because I plan on making some WWII and other battles once a scenario editor is available and I want a really good map for it.

Endureth

Oh yeah, and I want to widened the mediterrainian a little on the southeastern end.

 

[Endureth]

Forgot the file.

 

[Vonotar]

Originally posted by Hastus
Everytime I open the readme file my wordpad locks up and I get a fun message like this :

EAX=00000001 CS=015f EIP=0140f6d5 EFLGS=00010206.......

Anyone else having this problem or do I need to fry my computer?

That's pretty!

No, being serious I think the problem is that your Wordpad is not able to read Word 97+ files, either that or you do need to "fry your computer". The next version will have the Read-me in Html format, the logic being that if you have downloaded a Map from here you must therefore have a browser installed!

Instructions (for those who can't read the Read-me)

1 - Install “Marla Singer’s World Map for Civilization III” by double-clicking on the install file.
2 - Open Civilization III, select “load scenario” and choose Marla’s World Map.
3 - Choose your options on how you want to play like you normally would.
4 - Launch your game and save straight away as “FIX.SAV” without founding any cities.
5 - On your Start Menu click “Correct Start Positions for World Map” (you don’t need to quit Civ3).
6 - Now load the newly created save game “FIXED.SAV”.
7 - All player positions are now correct, now all you have to do now is play!

Hope this helps

Vonotar

 

[Gramphos]

May I suggest that you still inclede the CPF-file, as people might want to play with the FOW right (and not just Civ2 default).

The CPF isn't big.

 

[faint]

how large is this map?
I want a world map as huge as possible
so it can contains more detail and be more accurate to the real world

 

[Endureth]

how large is this map?

It's very, very, very big. It's the largest, most accurate world map I've seen yet. With all the tweaking still going on it's gonna get even better.

Endureth

 

[Vonotar]

Originally posted by Gramphos
May I suggest that you still inclede the CPF-file, as people might want to play with the FOW right (and not just Civ2 default).

The CPF isn't big.

Next release will have your CPT tool included (assuming you have no objections) now that I've worked out how to integrate it into the rest of the package

Aloisia Vonotar

 

[StarEmpire]

Hi!

I've downloaded the latest version 1.13 and found it to be the BEST map I've seen so far. I do have one bug, however, that is I could not change my research que or change item to be researched. When I go to the Research Advisor Screen (F6?), I can not change my current research item to others nor can I qued up any research. My mouse button simply don't work in that screen. Please help!

p.s. I am running v1.07f and on Win XP. Thanks

 

[Vonotar]

You need the patch, it's a Firaxis Bug *ahem* I mean Feature!

 

[StarEmpire]

Hi V!

Do you mean I need to get yet another new patch? Is there a newer one than v1.07f? Thanks!

 

[Vonotar]

v1.07f is the version number for the original released game, the patch is 1.16f *grin*

 

[StarEmpire]

Thanks V!

I'll give it a try! :crazyeyes

 

[Webba]

Hi Marla

I just read this post and all the positive responses that tou world map received.

But I have kind of lost myself here and I don't know exactly where to download the last updated version of your earth map.

Could you please send it to me to switzerland? of course by email: weberstyle@hotmail.com

thank you so much.

ps: i have winxp. does this work too?