QES
Court Jester
Marnid said:Hello QES,
I have an offer and suggestion:
instead of tinkering with the map generator we could use this thread or a new one to post "improved" random maps and random map requests.
I did this for myself with civ3 (because the civ3 map generator was really atrocious), and had a pool of touched up randomly generated maps saved. It takes less than a half hour (for standard size) to improve a random map, and if you haven't seen it before it still a great suprise playing it.
I will make one for you,
but let me know what the basic parameters you desire (specifically):
size
type (pangea / archipeligo / etc...)
# of civs
which civs to include:
# of resources (I can increase or decrease the number of any of these if desired, it might be interesting to play a map with more plentiful mana nodes, espicially when the next version comes out)
What I will do:
1) open up the world builder and generate a random map with the desired parameters, regenerate until you get an interesting looking one.
2) Then make the features more "clumpy" a large desert, a jungle island, large forests, actual mountain ranges
3) Set up new balanced starting locations with appriate terrain for the civs (e.g. Lanun on coast near islands, Malakim in desert, Dwarves near hills mountain ranges, Doviello near tundra, etc...)
If many do this and post the maps in the forum there should be a good selection to choose from.
This sounds like a great idea. Instead of sasiating me however, it makes me want both. I recomend making a New thread and call it "Maps" or something simple but to the point. I would hope that the team perhaps makes this a sticky thing, and then what you could/should do is continously place new maps (random plus) on the thread. Since i dont know how to upload things, it'd be best if its a new thread, and something you could update the first post on. I am all for this idea.
I am STILL wanting the basic random map generator tinkered with by some wiz whom will eventually see this lovely thread, because in general I'm a lazy oaf, and it'd be nice to just hit "play now" a few times and get a different game (with consistantly awesome maps) each time.
Keep it up!
-Qes