World Builder after action report

[Abaxial]

I have now tried using World Builder and playing the result. The good news is it is easy (at last) to load a custom map into the game. The bad news:

1) Designating a hex as the starting point for a city state does not result in a city state appearing there when you play the game. There will be no city states unless you add them in the Player Editor, which only appears in the "Advanced" mode, which you have to toggle on. Then you find only six (!) city states are available, and instead of being called, say, Armagh, they will have names like AI-LOC-CIVILIZATION-ARMAGH, which doesn't even fit into the text display.

2) There is only a limited selection of Natural Wonders available.

I posted before that you have to remove a feature like ice hex by hex, but actually you can paint over ice with land and then paint over the land with sea, if you want to clear away a large amount of ice.

The city state problem is a killer, so until Firaxis patch this, it's not really worth using.

 

[Stilgar08]

That's why it's not officially released...

 

[Abaxial]

But the implication of the video was that it was released, at least the basic version. But it seems that even the basic version is lacking essential usability.

 

[Stilgar08]

But the implication of the video was that it was released, at least the basic version. But it seems that even the basic version is lacking essential usability.

See this post from Dennis from Firaxis concerning the WB...

Integrated, yes, but until we "finish" it, you still have to enable it. Until we get through the rest of the tool (like the Advanced Mode area) and are able to have 2K QA give us a hearty thumbs-up, we don't want to present it as absolutely finished. More work to come, so enable it as stated above, and enjoy the progress made so far, which includes MANY front-end fixes to make loading your new maps super-easy. Bug reports are welcome as usual over in the bug thread. Thanks all!

Nevertheless it's good to report those shortcomings, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to discourage you! But maybe this isn't the right place... (bug thread)

 

[Abaxial]

My point is that the maps created are effectively unplayable. Hungary on a map with no CSs?

One other thing I noticed was that there are names for mountains and deserts, but not rivers.

 

[rlw33]

The city state thing is very annoying.
Other than that though, the world builder is surprisingly good. Maps load easily and the editing tool is easy to use.

 

[_ViKinG_]

The city state thing is very annoying.
Other than that though, the world builder is surprisingly good. Maps load easily and the editing tool is easy to use.

My map does not load. It crash when trying to load it. Dont know if its because of the map size or something. The map is a giant earth map. Someone know this?