ViSa Maps

[Vader1025]

When I try to save it, it says I'm not "allowed" and I don't have "permissions."
Is this an artifact of Vista?

I figured it out. Even though I am logged in as an "administrator", Vista still needed me to give the "User" admin rights.

 

[Nitro_2985]

Is there anything I need to do to get that giant earth map to work?

I tried putting it into my public maps folder in the warlords directory, but whenever I try to start up a game, it says I've lost and goes through the scoreboard and the other parts of a lost game.

I don't even get to finish one turn.

 

[Vader1025]

Is there anything I need to do to get that giant earth map to work?

I tried putting it into my public maps folder in the warlords directory, but whenever I try to start up a game, it says I've lost and goes through the scoreboard and the other parts of a lost game.

I don't even get to finish one turn.

I've not had that happen. I just have the MAF almost immediately.

 

[rockinroger]

@nitro_2985, did you have a problem with the giant earth map download?

Try using the map again and see if that was just a one time thing. If it still does it then maybe you had a bad download.

 

[Nitro_2985]

Nope, I've tried downloading it a few times and every time the game is able to load it, I just loose before I can take even one turn.

I'm also able to open it in mapview. I checked for errors and none were found.

I tried running the visa installer again and doing "repair" in case I had changed some settings that I shouldn't have.

I even tried completely uninstalling warlords (but not civ 4 vanilla) and reinstalling with no other mods except for visa. No luck.

 

[rockinroger]

Nope, I've tried downloading it a few times and every time the game is able to load it, I just loose before I can take even one turn.

I'm also able to open it in mapview. I checked for errors and none were found.

I tried running the visa installer again and doing "repair" in case I had changed some settings that I shouldn't have.

I even tried completely uninstalling warlords (but not civ 4 vanilla) and reinstalling with no other mods except for visa. No luck.

Sorry just was informed that to make it work with 3.1 to select it as a scenario.

 

[Nitro_2985]

I just did that and I still got the same result.

Are there any parts of the mod that should be turned off?

I can post a screenshot if it'll help.



On a somewhat interesting note, for that screenshot there, I had selected for the game length just below 2000 turns, but the screen there says that 2500 turns are alloted for the game.

 

[TAfirehawk]

On a somewhat interesting note, for that screenshot there, I had selected for the game length just below 2000 turns, but the screen there says that 2500 turns are alloted for the game.

That may be the problem....Grand Speed was reduced from 2500 to 2000 turns.....the map would need to be fixed for the current v3.10 game speed.

 

[Nitro_2985]

Nope, bringing it down to 2000 by editing the save file with wordpad didn't work.

Maybe it just isn't compatible anymore. Have you guys tried it to see if it is? If it doesn't work for any of you, maybe you can move it down off of the compatible list of maps.

 

[rockinroger]

@Nitro, I get the same result as you do. The you have been defeated b4 playing. Perhaps the map maker has the keys to fixing this.

 

[Deds]

I got the same error but I fixed it.
I changed lines number 227 and 234 in the worldbuildersave file:
ContactWithTeam=34 ---> ContactWithTeam=28;
ContactWithTeam=35 ---> ContactWithTeam=29;
Now it works.

 

[Mortaeugs]

What must be done to update a 2.0 visa map to work with 3.0? As it stands I cannot even load the map to edit it without a CTD.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Nitro_2985]

I got the same error but I fixed it.
I changed lines number 227 and 234 in the worldbuildersave file:
ContactWithTeam=34 ---> ContactWithTeam=28;
ContactWithTeam=35 ---> ContactWithTeam=29;
Now it works.

Yeah, that does work. I'm doing a bit of editing myself to that map, putting in America and I'm also looking at India and China, which seem to have waaaaaay too many resources for their land area (I counted about twice as high of a density in a sample area of China as in the same sized sample area in North America) so I might lower the number of special resources available to China and India if after running through a game they get to be way too powerful.

I'll give credit to Bastian-Bux if I do decide to post my version of his map though.

 

[rockinroger]

I got the same error but I fixed it.
I changed lines number 227 and 234 in the worldbuildersave file:
ContactWithTeam=34 ---> ContactWithTeam=28;
ContactWithTeam=35 ---> ContactWithTeam=29;
Now it works.

Great work Deds. I can confirm that changing those 2 lines does allow the map to work.

Its would be even nicer to have a giant earth map that allows for random civs. Any map makers up for that challenge?

 

[TAfirehawk]

What must be done to update a 2.0 visa map to work with 3.0? As it stands I cannot even load the map to edit it without a CTD.

Any help is appreciated.

No clue here....don't do maps

But I am sure at least 3-4 people here who have done it can help you out.

 

[Bastian-Bux]

First, try to set the number of civs to 30, not 36. Yes, that means you have to deleted any trace of civ 30-35. ANY trace, this includes not only the team and civ entries, but also everything found if searching for "unitowner=3*", and "teamreveal=3*"

 

[rockinroger]

@Bastian Not trying to step on any toes but i updated the Visa Earth 100x56 map to work with visa3.1. I took out all references to 31-35 and it works.

 

[rockinroger]

I found a earth map that is in a py file that seems to work great with Visa 3.1 also. Going to test it some tommorrow to make sure it works and perhaps tweak it for visa. The good thing for a python file is that it can be loaded up through the custom game screen instead of the scenarios. Right now im testing 30 civs and seems fine 61 of 510 turns.

 

[rockinroger]

Here is a Earth map that i found that works good. The link is here, http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=184377. It was made by GRM7584. So credits goes to him. It is a python map so you can work it from custom game instead of scenarios.

 

[Tark]

3 Earth maps that work with ViSa3.1

ViSa3 Earth map 100x56 19 civz: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=5936

ViSa3 Earth map 52x32 18 civz: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=5942

ViSa3 Earth map 52x32 9 civz: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=5941

All 3 have been tested multiplayer with good results. I recommend either of the 52x32 maps for systems with 1gb or less ram, altho I know of one person running the larger map with 1gb.