[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
-200+ Multiplayer maps
I for one am satisfied with random maps. And, I don't see how you could have 200+ truly unique maps with the SE4 system. They will either end up being repetitive or similar to the random maps.

This is actually a pretty good idea. I had planned on doing a premade map library to be included on the Gold CD in January. Unfortunatly I ran out of time with the work on the Devnull mod and my scenarios. I may still do one someday though.

The need for it is simply becasue SE4 doesn't do all that good a job of spacing empires out with the random maps. You can have a large map with 8 empires and you still might have 2 right next to each other. I am not sure why it is, but it's a fact. Making a custom map for each game is certainly an option, but it complicates things if the person making the map is planning on playing in the game.

If you have enough maps and name them genaricly enough, redundancy shouldn't be a problem. You won't be able to tell what map it is jsut from your home system. You could play the same map several times and wouldn't recognize it if you were starting in different places each time. Plus the more important thing is not what the map looks like, but where the other guy is, and you wouldn't have any way of knowing that, even if you did know the map for sure.

Geoschmo