If it were up to me (and it's not), I'd combine your map and GregFred187's map, and maybe add more tiles in the south to fit in Ethiopia and some Somalian states/entities. Maybe like 6 tiles in the South to get to a nice round number of 90 tiles tall.
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Oh wow wanted to play SoI a little after a big Civ4 pause and I find this thread xDTo be honest we didn't get very far. Just discussed a few things and Nizou did a little modding. The only modding I have done is for RFCGW, and that is coded quite differently from SOI. Plus I am not very good at modding, so I wouldn't likely be much help.
I do very much support the idea behind this mod though. AtlantaMarty actually probably did the hardest part (the expansion of the map) and then he just left. An additional shame was that the most recent version of his mod seems to have disapeared as well.
Anyway I hope your revival of this goes well, it is worth doing in my humble opinion.
IIRC only the Portuguese can build Carracks, maybe increase Carrack to 7Must be very rare! It has not happened to me yet.
I guess you still had some ships left in Yemen, though would be a quite impossible game.
But what defence ships should I place? The Carrack (6) is already 50% stronger than Great Galley (4
Hey, sorry for the delay. That's the Oghuz Yabgu State up there, a few years before they inevitably piss off the Karakhanids or the Kypchaks move in.
I would like to try to combine the two maps, that is one of the few modding tasks that I think I could pull off successfully.
Well, you can certainly give it a shot. I think this may be all the files you'll need. You need to either delete all of the FEATURE_TERRACE lines in the map file (custom food terrain feature I added to some hills) or keep them and add the corresponding info into CIV4FeatureInfos.xml and CIV4ArtDefines_Feature.xml. Also in the map file you need to delete the references to civilizations not found in Sword of Islam Reborn, as well as renumber the teams and plots (which I'm sure you know).
Thanks! I hope that even if you don't release your version publicly, that I could try it. I wouldn't leak it, I'm a man of my word
Gotcha right here. It's mostly the same as vanilla in the non-expanded parts of the map, but I redid Makuria's to feature cities mentioned in the texts of medieval travelers as well as archaeology. I can't blame embryodead for the anachronisms - this stuff was not easy to learn about, and so much of it is still speculation, and we're probably not getting much more to work with given the current situation in Sudan.Thanks! I hope that even if you don't release your version publicly, that I could try it. I wouldn't leak it, I'm a man of my word
The one suggestion I do have for your map is to add some ocean to Eastern India, as far as I can tell, given where the new eastern edge of your map is, there should be some of India's east coast and not just land there
Do you have the CityNameManager for your bigger map?
I tihnk we could use Simeon from RFC Europe for at least 1st Bulgarian Empire, maybe add a second LH starting from ~1200 (2nd Bulgaria Empire) but idk which one could fit the best
Merging the maps means there will be a lot more room in the Balkans. Budapest will probably even fit in, using the Western border of GregFred's map and the Northern border of DrLoboto's.
SOI only has one leaderhead per civ
