[Atraikius]

We are still at a loss on how to make a map, let alone set up DO to have some kind of tile editor in game (the mod manual makes refrence to inserting some "-tilegen" somewhere, but I have yet to find the magic spot that makes this happen)

Create a new sortcut to the DO .exe file. Right click on the shortcut, and select properties. Under the program tab, add the "-tilegen" to the end of the command line.

How hard would it be to just make a program that allows you to "paint" the maps, or setions of maps, in the game (think of it like a map editor from some civ games)?

You make tiles so that the tiles may be randomly placed durring map creation when you start the module.