larger maps

[jb1958]

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I used search and didnt see my specific question. Is there a coded limit of map size no larger than 169X121? Ive tried the bigger worlds mod and the unofficial world builder. With some testing of changing the height and width I cant load a larger size than the 169X121. The unofficial world builder has slider up to 256X128, but does that only work for 8 gigs of ram? I have 4 gig and windows 7 64 bit and get an exception dump. Thanks

 

[Revoran]

This isn't exactly solving your problem (sorry), but out of interest what do you want a large size for?

Because of the way area of maps works, area grows a LOT after only a few more hexes per side are added. For instance, a 140x90 map is a TON bigger than a 128x80 map.

Personally I couldn't imagine playing on a map much larger than 150x128.

 

[jb1958]

Curiosity mainly. I know 166X118 is huge, but wondered if you could get a wider map to work. I usually played civ4 on the really big maps, just a preference.

 

[Gedemon]

184x96 is the max I was able to play with. I'm going to release a giant earth, it runs without crash on my PC so far, but I don't know how it will perform on other PC...

 

[jb1958]

With a little experimenting, I was able to play with maps of 180X80 and 168X120. I would be curious if any one else could try these sizes and see if they work on their PCs. The 184X96 size didnt work on mine.

 

[Gedemon]

hmmm, in fact it was 180x96 or 182x96, sorry

184 was crashing.

 

[jb1958]

Ok. The 182X96 size worked on mine as well. I just tried to load it and play a few turns with these sizes, so dont know how slow they would be mid or late game. But we do know some custom sizes that work.

 

[jb1958]

With seemingly 1 to 3 hex count difference on different sizes, are we hitting a definite
'maximum' x and y dimension of a map? I know that the map generators use plate tectonic etc in some of the scripts, is that causing some sizes to fail?