old world map
 

Just so we don't fall short on topics...

I refer to the map for DOM-I.

Now this is a great map. I really like the detail given to starting positions and climate/geography.
Plus it's a quite diffcult.
I wonder if the person that designed it is a member of this forum. I'd like to first commend his great work and second to ask if he has made more maps.

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BTW,
has anyone tried the elric map?
is it a good map?

perhaps I should post a poll to find out the best created map for DOM-I.

[ October 08, 2003, 18:05: Message edited by: izaqyos ]

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There is never a "best". For any question. There is only Pros and Cons.

As for the Elric map it was an excellent Elric map. As close as anyone could get to creating a theme based map in Dom 1. I hope he will tackle it again with all the new options that Dom 2 will gime him.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Its Kristoffer who made it, he made all the dom 1 maps made by illwinter, that is all maps except: realmwars, hexmap, northamerica, hexblitz, elric and dandellion. He has also made all but one of the dom 2 maps, and that map he has converted from an existing ma of brittain.

[ October 08, 2003, 18:14: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

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BTW, IW people and betatesters, can you give us a primer on the Dom2 maps http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ?
Will we have our old Dom1 faves ? What are the new cool maps and scenarios/scripted maps ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The old ones are easy to convert to the dom 2 format, takes a little work but not to much, but they will lokk the same way they used to. Kristoffer has also redrawn the Urgaia map. Currently there is only one* scenario, if I recall correctly.

*EDIT: I remembered wrong, there are 3 scenarios.

[ October 13, 2003, 11:21: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The old ones are easy to convert to the dom 2 format, takes a little work but not to much, but they will lokk the same way they used to. Kristoffer has also redrawn the Urgaia map. Currently there is only one* scenario, if I recall correctly.

*EDIT: I remembered wrong, there are 3 scenarios.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That is also wrong, there are 4 that I can think of.

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Well, maybe 5 scenarios now ? Who told 5 ?? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
And are there other new "vanilla" maps (I mean non scripted, or just a little) ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There are currently 7 maps in total, one of which is Urgaia and one that is the British Isles. And this time I actually checked and counted in order not to make an *** of myself again.

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Will you publish the maps in their original layered form (presumably still done in gimp)? I remember there were a couple of the larger maps from Dom 1 that I liked, but they just had too many provinces for my taste (e.g. Old World, Cimmeria). It would be cool to be able to easily tweak them.

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Unfortunately the maps in Dom I wasn't made in layers. I have remade Urgaia. I rescaled it, replaced most colours with some beige, pasted mountains and forests from other maps and finally redrew the borders. Didn't take too much time. I will make a library with mountains and trees etc for those of you who doesn't like to draw. This will hopefully increase the number of player made maps.