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Old November 6th, 2006, 08:43 PM
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Default Re: Rivers ???

I should have worded my answer more clearly: changing the existing maps (hand-drawn or how they are generated by the RMG) isn't really feasible at the moment.

O.c. you can partly re-draw the existing maps to have rivers at the borders - like some maps have those already.

But neither drawing a river somewhere nor marking 2 adjecent provinces as "fresh water" has any influence on movement:

Movement solely depends on the "neighbour-connections" specified in the .map file. You have to manually delete the connection between 2 provinces which are to be seperated by a unpassable river.

While this is far from impossible, it gets a major PITA fast. And prone to error, with more PITA to follo when you have to fix up the erroneous connections.
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