Terra Map

I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature, but I often find Uluru completely
surrounded by water. Australia is "a country of drought and flooding rain", but
this is taking it a bit far.

 

No need to put desert tiles around it. One of the delights of the Terra maps and
their quasi-randomness is to find Natural Wonders in different settings. For
example, your previous screenshot of the Galapagos Islands in a lake.

That said, I think Uluru should be on land; on a shoreline tile next to the coast is
also Ok.

 

The Terra map seems to crash or desync right away in multiplayer for whatever reason.

It's also annoying that if you have two continents and turn on the setting for spawning all players on the main continent, you barely get any city states there unless you also disable city states in the new world continent.

There should be an option to change the ratio so we can have most of the city states on the old world continent, but with a few left to discover in the new world.

 

That may explain why I can't get a game going in hotseat, instead of being able to proceed with a move, I merely get "Please Wait..." indefeniately.

 

Well this happens when I start a new game, so I can't start a game.

 

Seems to be working fine as far as jungle spawning on mountains.
(I can't say anything about other issues.)

 

I thought there was something missing on the maps: Whales!
Haven't seen any ever on the Terra maps.

 

@HadrianLP 's playthrough of Khmer using the Terra map script has whales.

 

I guess it could be my set up, i.e. with abundant resources, no
exclusion zones.
But notice the extract from my lua.log file that Gedemon showed.
No whales on that, or on ones I've checked that I'm playing now,
after the latest updates.

EDIT: I started with standard resources and found whales. It
might be a glitch in the previous version and/or with abundant resources.

 

Hi @Gedemon

I did two experiments with your Terra map script. Each experiment consisted of starting 10 new games as Rome. After loading each game, on turn 0, I revealed the map and made a screenshot of my starting location. I used slightly different settings for the second experiment (civ placement setting). I made sure to make a screenshot of the settings aswel.

Screenshots of Experiment 1: https://imgur.com/a/Qwpnu
Screenshots of Experiment 2: https://imgur.com/a/NV0yK

My goal is to find a map script that makes a Pangea-like map where all the major civs start, but where it's uncertain for the players what lies in the ocean. Could be a vast new world, or just some small islands. I would love this kind of map script because it takes my favorite traditional map type (Pangea) and adds meaningful exploration to it. So you see how your Terra map script is very close to what I am looking for.

The reason I started doing this is because I thought the starting locations were pretty bad. I wondered if it was due to bad luck or something else. From these experiments I get the impression that it wasn't coincidence; most of these starting locations are bad/strange I recon. Almost all of them are coast and lack fresh water, for example.

Can anyone recommend another map script that meets my goal?

 

I found the same but, as Gedemon said, it might just be bad luck. Remember:
random number generators don't guarantee an even distribution of resources.
They are more likely to create clumps, i.e. regions with few resources/luxuries
and other regions with an over-abundance. If there are natural wonders nearby,
that might also tend to mean fewer resources in their vicinity (I assume).

Have you tried abundant resources? Or no exclusion zones?

 

More on yor problem...

I tried a few variations and had quite a lot of success using the Add-Ons pack.
I only used a few from the many options, but the Resources Placement Tweak might
help you a bit. I got a good range of luxuries and resources with the standard
(not abundant) resources option of the Terra maps. Whales are there too.

 

Here's another YouTuber (this one is a Deity-level player) who uses the Terra map: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr_5Byhx_s8_OgErjVUTvJ-UiMwWXkfgN

 

Hi @Gedemon,

I love the Terra map and the options it gives to change the shape of the landmasses to create an entirely unknown world. I like to be surprised and to be completely in the dark on how the world looks, so I wanted to put every script on random. However, I couldn't find the "random" choice in the list with choices like you posted in the description:

For me, the final choice is "empty". I tried it, but then I get a map with only ocean and some small islands for every civ + city state.
I subscribed on the YnAMP map pack on steam. Did I do something wrong? Do I have a different version or did you remove the random choice or something like that?