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Actually it can get alittle more specific than that. A program could read in the map and figure the terrains for each providence. Then it could read in all the neighbor lines. Now it should be possible to find a province which is Mountain or Swamp, and one which is an Island (surrounded by water neighbors), or a lake (water surrounded by land), or a shoreline province, or maybe even decent chokepoints on the map.
Im picturing seperate province files that can be randomly selected and inserted into the .map such as
#land XX
#landname "there be DRAGONS HERE"
#poptype XX (trolls)
#magicsite "something appropriate here"
#magicsite "something appropriate here"
#magicsite "something appropriate here"
#commander "Carrion Dragon"
#equip "anti-magic amulet"
#bodygrd 10 "Iron Dragon"
#units 20 "Dragon Men"
#commander "Red Dragon"
#units 20 "fire drake"
etc etc etc
If there was a decent way of marking the province files. Such as "Dragons Lair" being for mountains, and the "BoogeyMan Bog" being for swamp, the "Crystal Spires" for an island. That way the program can randomly select from the many (hopefully a ton of player offered) province files, then try to find an approprite location for it and insert it there. If we get up to having a hundred files, and I randomly insert 10-20 in each of the daily random generated games then it seems like it could be a worthwhile project.
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