What is SHUFFLE map?

[El Caballerion]

Is it:

A) A randomly selected map from the current slate of maps (e.g., Continents, Pangaea, Fractal, etc)?

or

B) A completely random map, similar to Fractal?

 

[whyidie]

Is it:

A) A randomly selected map from the current slate of maps (e.g., Continents, Pangaea, Fractal, etc)?

or

B) A completely random map, similar to Fractal?

"A", random choice from the current slate.

 

[blackbutterfly]

Is it:

A) A randomly selected map from the current slate of maps (e.g., Continents, Pangaea, Fractal, etc)?

or

B) A completely random map, similar to Fractal?

Neither.
You get either Fractal, Island Plates or Continents. That is from examining the Shuffle.lua map script.

(Sorry to necro this thread, but the answer wasn't correct. I myself wanted to know cos Shuffle is popular in MP).

 

[SaboteurINT]

So, you will not receive i..e. Primordial , when selecting Shuffle?
Correctly understood?

 

[blackbutterfly]

So, you will not receive i..e. Primordial , when selecting Shuffle?
Correctly understood?

Definitely not.

There is a separate map script for the Shuffle map.
It was coded before Primordial.

And they were too lazy to update it.

FYI just read the comments:

function GeneratePlotTypes()
    local mapType = TerrainBuilder.GetRandomNumber(10, "Random World Age - Lua");
    if(mapType < 5) then
        -- Fractal Map
        return FractalGenerator();
    elseif(mapType < 8) then
        -- Island Map
        return IslandPlates();
    else
        -- Continent Map
        return Continents ();
    end
end

 

[Haig]

This is something that gets regularly asked and gets different answers always too.

 

[shaglio]

All this time I thought it was Continents, Island Plates, Fractal, and Pangaea. Well I guess I learned something new (4 and a half years after release).

 

[whyidie]

Aw bummer. I thought I was getting everything with Shuffle. Thats the only map type I was playing.

 

[Vargas1]

Aw bummer. I thought I was getting everything with Shuffle. Thats the only map type I was playing.

Yeah, no idea why there isn’t a true ‘random’ setting that draws from all valid map types (i.e. not tsl). I would play that all the time.

 

[shaglio]

Yeah, no idea why there isn’t a true ‘random’ setting that draws from all valid map types (i.e. not tsl). I would play that all the time.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: with things like the Wonder picker, CS picker, and the Civ pools, there's no reason why they can't make a Random Map picker that would allow us to pick and choose which map scripts to randomly draw from.