Question about random map icons
 

I was told that the little map icons (house, shrine, etc) that random map generator sometimes places on some provinces, actually indicate the presence (or perhaps likely presence?) of some specific magic site type.


Does anobody know anything about it? It would be great to have a list of all these little icons and what do they mean.

Re: Question about random map icons
 

You can look at the map file while viewing the image in the editor. Select a province with a symbol to get the province number, then find that province in the map file. Compare the terrain value to the chart that Gandalf posted in one of your other threads.

Re: Question about random map icons
 

I think I already posted this half a dozend times somewhere here on the forum ;-)

Those icons show the presence of a known (level-0) site in the province.
=> When the game rolls for sites, it puts on automatically into the province when it encounters those terrain numbers.
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
Decimal Bitmap (3byte?) 2^x Terrain
Number 321098765432109876543210
8192 000000000010000000000000 ="firesite" (vulcano)
16384 000000000100000000000000 ="airsite" (?)
32768 000000001000000000000000 ="watersite" (lake)
65536 000000010000000000000000 ="earthsite" (?)
131072 000000100000000000000000 ="astralsite" (?)
262144 000001000000000000000000 ="deathsite" (house)
524288 000010000000000000000000 ="naturesite" (tree)
1048576 000100000000000000000000 ="bloodsite" (????)
2097152 001000000000000000000000 ="priestsite" (standingstones)
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Re: Question about random map icons
 

I got it, thank you Arralan, this was very helpful.

Now I am trying to see if anybody knows which icons (if any) stand for these "?" and "?????" .

And BTW, I think the icon for Nature site is a single green tree. (IMHO not the best choice - makes it impossible to see in the real forest province)