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Old November 28th, 2003, 03:42 PM
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Default Re: Are huge maps harder?

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Originally posted by Elmo:
Waiting impatiently for my copy of D2 to arrive in the mail. Can someone tell me how many maps come with the game? I don't see it listed on the Features page. Thanks.
Well there's 7 .tga files (map images) and there are 12 .map files (text files with game scenarios). Which means there are 12 choices for starting a game on. Such as, when you make a game you can select between Orania and War of Orania to play on. They both use the orania.tga to play on but orania.map is standard scrambling of whatever players you pick and oraniawar.map gives everyone 5 starting provinces and other setting changes for a very different game.

By the way, I fully expect alot of both to appear from the players. The "paint program" Users will (should soon hopefuly please) provide new playing areas for the "strategy role playing" ones to create game stories around. Doing the game story stuff only reqeuires a text editor like Word, WordPad, Notepad, (vi?). In Dom1 people tended to do both but I think in Dom2 we will get much better results if people are willing to stick to one or the other. PLEASE some paint people, upload some tga stuff.

[ November 28, 2003, 13:42: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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