Craterus22
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narmox said:Some more thoughts and comments:
- Oceans: contact between americas and the old world happens too soon. Heck Japan even settles Hawaii or something, while America wil settle Iceland if England doesn't do it first. This may or may not be your goal for this map, just thought I'd mention it. It'd be cool if the oceans were larger (while keeping the exact same landmasses) to make this contact come later.
- Rome: whoa. I just played my first ever game with the Romans where I decided to rush for Praetorians... All of Europe fell before 100 BC (except for England), then Russia lost their capital and 2 cities before 1000 AD. Too bad the AI never does a rush like that.
- Even though the map is really small, I still feel like it's a very big world. For most of the ancient and middle ages, I don't even care about what happens over in asia if I'm playing in Europe or Africa. It seems like they're so far away, and there's so much happening "locally". That's probably because there's so many civs in a crowded area. Good job![]()
Thanks for all the comments - a couple of replies from me
oceans - when i made the map using the rhys tool... I "thought" I had more ocean space... the tool automatically puts in coast terrrain (rightfully so)... it was something I didn't think of at the time... I "may" try to make a wider map (perhaps 52x37?), but it may be a real headache (because I have made alot of post creation fixes).
rome (and france)... so far I have only played on settler so I don't expect too much action (except when using aggro - man that option is GREAT)... I was hoping to use it to figure out how to incent the ai to build in appropriate places (hence copper in north africa - trying to have mansa build north)... I have left room for them to build (and I was hoping low difficulty would provide the lack of war to let them build), but it hasnt worked.
The fact that the player can kick butt with Rome and France means it is possible, and perhaps those can be harder start areas for the player... (though I am still hoping to solve the problem of getting at least two cities for both those civs). Arabia - I am not so worried about (but there is room for the player to build three cities).
And yes I would love seeing the Ai put a rush on... I am hoping that it occurs at higher difficulty levels - anyone that plays at the higher levels please feel free to tell us the tale - it will be a while before I have time to play
Roach said:Here is some great news for me. I down loaded the above map (64x40) and I have made it all the way to 1820 without a crash so far.
Never before have I got passes 1500AD before the game become unbearable with Hard Crashes and BSODs. So thanks for that I can now play the game.
If all goes well will try it again, who knows it may well be the only map I ever get to play on this game.Thanks again........
Good to hear - I may take a break from the 52x32 map after I download the patch and work on the bigger one (64x40) for a bit...