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Old April 14th, 2005, 11:48 AM
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Default Re: report from Dom2Minions.com

OK so obviously Faerun is a popular map. Of course Im not one of the real map sites so one of the others can give a better comparison there. But it sounds like anyone wanting to make a map would be well off looking at Faerun.

All_Units is popular. The macro-generated screen-grab of each unit in the game which can be used to speed up MODding. And Ive been told that its not even done in the most prefered version. So if anyone wishes to redo it, feel free to do so.

DomMap in various versions is still going strong. Thats the random generator which creates the TodayMap files. (thank you Bryon Daly for the latest batch of changes in the prgoram). It has a TON of switches so anyone who wants to change the settings or colors just grab the program. Apparently the devs have heard us since there is to be a random map generator in Dom3.

Of my own modified maps it appears that "Mazes and Monsters" is the winner. So I might need to re-visit that one to see what might be improved. Now that someone is working on a "logical placement of independents" database it would be easy to include that. Maybe I will also include a map with high "impassable borders" setting from DomMap so that its more mazed.

Im abit surprised at the starter project getting so much attention. I would finish that but again it appears that the devs have heard us, and plan to address that problem in Dom3.

I should probably redo mini map. The others it looks like I can continue thinking of them as "lack of interest" projects.
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