How prevalent is RMG Wierdness?

BobPerez · #1 December 24th, 2007, 05:43 AM

My wife and I just started playing Dom3 and I've noticed that the RMG is creating a lot of bizarre situations where neighbors are incorrectly represented and UW graphics are used to represented forest terrain, and so on and so forth. Looking over the short bug list, it appears that these bugs have been found and accounted for.

We want to play some head-to-head, so we don't really need huge maps and we like the <small random map> option. But the bugs we encountered in our first two games are pretyt discouraging. Should we just hold off using the RMG and use only the shipping maps, or are these wierdnesses infrequent? Is there a patch coming to address this?

Thanks,

Edi · #2 December 24th, 2007, 05:50 AM

The RMG has gotten fairly little attention compared to mods and other things with higher priority. I am not very familiar with it myself, so all the shortlist entries regarding it are based on entries by other people.

The RMG is a useful tool in creating new maps, but you practically have to open the newly created map in the map editor and then check terrain and neighbor assignments. Currently it is a good idea to restart Dominions 3 every time after you've created a random map to avoid problems stemming from a corrupted geotable (scales bug, but would explain a lot of RMG strangeness).

You should also probably take a look at the maps and mods subforum, there are a fair number of user created maps there and there's also a sticky thread that links most map threads, so it shouldn't be too difficult to find them. Most maps are medium-sized, but there are some small ones as well.

vfb · #3 December 24th, 2007, 05:56 AM

There's also Zylithan's superb new map database here:

http://dom3maps.wikidot.com/nav:top

llamabeast · #4 December 24th, 2007, 08:24 AM

Many of the problems come from using the same name as a previous game. Try using a different game name every time. Doing that I've never really had any problems.

Foodstamp · #5 December 24th, 2007, 01:46 PM

Wow what kind of bugs are you having? The RMG only fails me when i duplicate a game name.

Cor2 · #6 December 24th, 2007, 03:51 PM

Mine has refused to create new maps for months now. I go through the waiting process and I get the exact same map image I created just before this probelm started with a diffrent corruped map file, its unplayable. Never bothered to complain because there are so many user created maps around that are good. Its just weird.