ICONS on the MAP???

[paraderain]

I see icons on the strategic map like crowns, houses, valcano's and other things, what do these represent on the map? If there's a page in the manual that describes these what page it is please?

[Ironhawk]

Most of that stuff is just eye candy on that map. No meaning unless the map is specially designed with certain magic sites appearing in provines that have interesting graphics.

As for crowns, are you talking about victory points? When you started your game, did you set the win condition to use victory points?

[paraderain]

No these are crown icons on the map and they aren't in every provinces just a select few. Same as the houses and volcano's and stuff.

[Edi]

They represent victory points. Mouse-over or right clicking on the icon should give you an idea, or hitting 'i' when the province is selected, I don't remember which one it was.

[Gandalf Parker]

Actually I think that the "eye-candy" can have a function also if it was a map generated in Dom3. The map file does mark certain terrains as prime for certain magic sites, and the eyecandy such as the volcano or monolith will often match up to those sites.

[Edi]

Gandalf Parker said:
Actually I think that the "eye-candy" can have a function also if it was a map generated in Dom3. The map file does mark certain terrains as prime for certain magic sites, and the eyecandy such as the volcano or monolith will often match up to those sites.

That's the best explanation I've seen so far. I've never used those special terrain types, so I don't know and I've never seen them. Time to give it a try, I think...

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I believe victory points show up even when they're not a victory condition. Don't worry about them, though they may help spread dominion.