goodyhut said:
First of all, thanks for the map generator! I tried it out a few times and I am getting a few bad memory placement errors that crashes the game. Also, I got a negative map coloring when I switched to the map editor and back again. Other than that it seems to work great! I do have a couple of suggestions right off the bat. I don't know if they have been mentioned already though.
Memory errors are probably due to your computer not having enough memory for a larger map. SmartMap maps are slightly larger by default, if you don't use enough ocean you'll run into trouble. Try generating slightly smaller maps.
goodyhut said:
My first suggestion is to add a size geration choice that also controls the shape of the map to make it so you don't get the skinny maps either hightwise or widthwise.
That's exactly what the override width and height controls are for. Pick the exact size of map you want using those. They have convenient indicators for the usual map sizes to help you gauge the exact size you want.
goodyhut said:
Secondly, I would suggest adding a seperation choice that works for civilization placement on all land maps, or even just in general. I don't mean continental seperation, I am suggestion that it makes sure your civilization is placed so that it will be guaranteed to be at least a certain distance from the nearest rival civilization's placement. This could be controled by the player in a way similar to the continental seperation or by simply saying it will be "X" ammount of tiles away.
The main problem here is that it is not always possible to place all players X apart from each other, depending on the shape of the map. The current algorithm also does favor fairness in resources over distance, however, so i'll think about adding an option that will always favor distance. Also, a note: all land maps use the most memory, so if you are generating big, all land maps, that's probably the cause of your memory problems.
goodyhut said:
My third suggestion is to add Gigantic to the size choices in addition to the normal ones. This is so players can choose that for playing with 18 or more civilizations.
Unfortunately, that isn't possible, the size set is coded in a way that would make adding another size very difficult (note, since I see you're using the six sizes mod, the reason this is a problem is that both the mod, and the map script have to be in agreement about the number of map sizes, and since smartmap is designed to be compatible with standard mods, I have to assume that there are therefore just the usual 5 sizes, otherwise smartmap would be incompatible with any 5 size mod). However, you do have access to the override width and height controls, so you can generate any map size you'd like, including sizes that would take a computer with hundreds of gigabytes of memory (currently ... i put them in hoping firaxis would improve the per tile memory usage at some point). The only downside to using enormous maps is that the game pace is not adjusted beyond huge, so research rate will always be limited to the huge rate. As an additional note, since it sounds like you prefer large maps, I have to point out that this is probably the cause of your memory problems. If you are trying to generate a huge map with smartmap, that size is somewhat larger in smartmap than in standard, and this is probably why you are running out of memory.
goodyhut said:
I apoligize if these suggestions have already been addressed. Thanks again for the map generator, it is awesome!
No problem, try out the override width/height controls, I think that will solve most of your issues. Adding a player placement option that prefers to maximize distance between players is a good and easy to make idea, so i'll put that in the next version.
Try generating a few smaller maps, and see if your memory problems go away. If they do, then unfortunately that leaves nothing I can do ... big maps just use a lot of memory.
I also noticed that the bottomost override options are something like "random 16-34" or something like that... which does not let me specify 32 or 20 (which I suspect would be too small anyway...).
