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Old December 1st, 2003, 12:59 AM
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Default test please: converted DOM1 map

I've converted my DOM1 map to DOM2:

http://home.arcor.de/stefan_weniger/...arrmap2.01.zip

"(v2.0.1) 136 land provinces, 27 seas. Works with up to 14 races, but things get a little tight then. Still not 100 percent balanced. Recommended settings: independents 5-8, sites 35, richness normal, rare events. Originally created for DOM1 with random map generator Version 0.6. (Random seed: 1038669222). Heavily modified using The GIMP."


This is the 0.1 Version of the map, so there may be a lot of things left to be fixed ... .

I haven't added any "freshwater" provinces, as there are no rivers on the map (may change in future Versions)- and I'm not shure what it really does.

What I found during testing:

- province values have been heavily nerfed compared to DOM1:
Originally the best provinces on this map had 50.000 pop and
yielded over 200 gold and 100 ressources (IIRC).
Now the best I could do is:

large mountain/forest 7450pop/23gold/46ress
large farm 20400pop/96gold/ 8ress
large 11590pop/53gold/20ress
l. moun./farm/forest 11230pop/53gold/20ress
.. looks like mountain/farm/forest cancel each other out..

To get roughly equivalent maps,
you would need about double the
number of provinves - or use the "rich map" option


- The random map generator sometimes puts borders where there are
"landmarks" i.e. mountain ridges.In DOM2 however, provinces are
treated "as a whole" for value and movment, so this doesn't work
out well: As soon as the province is marked "mountains", it
hinders movement - even if it would occure parallel to the ridge.

Hope you'll have fun with this map.
email me at Arralen@gmx.net

A.

[ November 30, 2003, 23:23: Message edited by: Arralen ]
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