Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

So I can make suggestions like this:

No specific land-name
No specific terrain
Bane Lord [Shadow Brand] x2
80 misc. Longdeads
No poptype (or "no soldiers belonging to the local poptype")
Contains the Battlefield magic site
Population - 1000

?

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

Yes, it's excatly what i need !

The function that select one of those preset sites is already done, all I have to do in fill the special provinces list.


Your exemple is perfect :

No specific land-name => the province will not be unique (several provinces could be edited with those settings)
No specific terrain => means that it can be selected whatever the terrain_type is (but maybe "waste" as required terrain would be appropriate ?)
Bane Lord [Shadow Brand] x2 => no problem, commander support is already fully implemeted
80 misc. Longdeads => no problem
No poptype (or "no soldiers belonging to the local poptype") => ok
Contains the Battlefield magic site => do you want the site to be already found or not ? (#feature "Battlefield" or #knownfeature "Battlefield" ?)
Population - 1000 => ok

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

Cool!

I meant it as a knownfeature (which is a good tip for all suggestions - remember to state if its a known site or hidden)
Also, I'm not sure if waste is appropraite, I rather tend to see "waste" provinces as those that are naturally uninhabitable, while this province is merely ravaged by war.
Something along the lines of:
19. a wild region or tract of land; desolate country, desert, or the like.

How 'bout:

Land Name: [The?] Twisted Forst
Terrain: Forest
Dark Vines [x7]
49 Vine Ogres
70 Vine Men
No extra troops from poptype. Though I could see it recruiting blowpipes and/or druids.
Population - 1500 (the few that manage to reside next to the creatures of the twisted forest)
Manysites

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

Ok, I will add the site to my list tonight (I'm currently at work)

Ok, so any land province will do (of course it's not for sea provinces) ^_^

... so, a waste http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif


The dark wines as commanders, is it correct ?

Note that I can set a fixed poptype too, so I could use the poptype #37 (Woodsmen + druid).

*Any* command that is currently usable in .map file is recognized by my script (It took almost 10 hours of programming to make the functions that can parse a .map file to a perl structure and back, but now I can easily change any info in a programmer-friendly way and output the edited map code with only one function)

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

You can make Dark Vines as commanders. In fact anything can be a pretender, or commander, or bodyguard, or troop. But there is a Vine King, and something called Ancient Presence, which you might want to consider.

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

Yeah, I meant the dark vines as commanders. I don't know nuthin' 'bout no Vine King :X (it might be better for this province, but I really never met the Vine King)
Poptype #37 is indeed a good choice.

As for the waste part, you seperated what was basically one unit into two parts, the dictionary definition of "waste" was intended to complement what I said one sentence before about how I view "waste" provinces, it was the definition that fits my view the most (notice it is definition #19 :X)

I'll try and come up with some more ideas later, though besides a few minutes for the forum I'm a bit busy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

(Definitely not as busy as Jack, taking 10 hours to program .map<->perl functions, nice work!)

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

Oh, I know that I can make any unit a commander, I was just making sure that it was what Agrajag wanted.


I know about the Vine king, and it could do indeed a good commander for this province (with or without the Dark Vines), but what is the "Ancient Presence" ?

I don't recall any corresponding summon, maybe it's from a random event ?

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

Ancient Presence just looks like a mound of vines. It has magic. I used it as a special map item using it as a pretender for an AI. I dont remember all of its specials but it would be worth looking into. I think its number ID is 641

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

Here are a few I came up with (this is fun http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif).

Land Name: Forest of Sighs
Terrain: Forest
Commanders: 5 Enchantress
Troops: 10 Hama Dryad, 20 Sprite
Poptype: woodsmen
Magic sites (visible): Forest of Joy, Forest of Pain

Land Name: Shimmering Mountains
Terrain: Mountain
Troops/commanders: 1 Vastness
Poptype: no special
Magic sites: Distortion

Land Name: Gardens of Rhuax
Terrain: Waste
Commanders: 10 Fire Elementals, 2 Adept of Pyriphlegeton
Troops: 50 Magma Children
Poptype: no special
Magic sites (visible): Gold Apple Tree, Fountain of Fire, Magma River, Ashen Fields

Hope they are ok.

Re: [request for help] unique provinces ideas
 

Thanks to all, things are starting to look interesting http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

With those provinces and some more, I will soon be able to update the online map parser to use special provinces for the "greater manysites options" (and for terrains type without any special site yet, I can always use my randomize_province() function)

I think that I will give to "normal" provinces a small chance to use a preset province too (something like 5% chance)