Pangea Communitas?

[imperfectpeter]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but since communitas seems to be *the* map of VP I thought I'd ask here.

Does anyone know if it's possible to force the communitas map to spawn as a single continent pangea, as opposed to continents or terra? I'm a big fan of the generation, but I find that having all players on a single continent, with some smaller land masses for colonisation, is the most fun for multiplayer. Terra sometimes results in a single continent with some islands which is ideal, but I was wondering if there was a way to force that generation.

 

[phantom22]

I usually put all of the map settings on random and have had one giant blob of land. I think it was on a smaller map though, maybe tiny size. If I had to guess, it would be the 'blocky' setting.

I also think there is an option to start everyone on the same continent leaving a 'new world' to be discovered and colonized. That might not be exactly what you're looking for, but it might be worth a shot playing on it at least once to try.

 

[azum4roll]

Set one rift/no rift and you should get that pretty often.

 

[Rosete]

If doing all that and you still want more land. You can also increase the water/land ratio in the communitas map file.

 

[phantom22]

I think sea level is an option on communitas. Like Rosete said, set it to low if you have the option which should make the land bigger and the oceans smaller.

 

[Cebrudras]

Communitu with low oceans tends to create awkward maps where everyone effortlessly gets to settle a like dozen cities, though.

 

[Boombar]

you can adjust attenuation values in your communitu_79a.lua . default is 0
set oceans to none or 1 and mglobal.iceLatitude to 90 to remove most of ice

mglobal.northAttenuationFactor = 0.20
mglobal.northAttenuationRange = 0.40 --percent of the map height.
mglobal.southAttenuationFactor = 0.20
mglobal.southAttenuationRange = 0.40


mglobal.eastAttenuationFactor = 0.20
mglobal.eastAttenuationRange = 0.30 --percent of the map width.
mglobal.westAttenuationFactor = 0.20
mglobal.westAttenuationRange = 0.30