old world map

WraithLord · #1 October 8th, 2003, 07:04 PM

Just so we don't fall short on topics...

I refer to the map for DOM-I.

Now this is a great map. I really like the detail given to starting positions and climate/geography.
Plus it's a quite diffcult.
I wonder if the person that designed it is a member of this forum. I'd like to first commend his great work and second to ask if he has made more maps.

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BTW,
has anyone tried the elric map?
is it a good map?

perhaps I should post a poll to find out the best created map for DOM-I.

[ October 08, 2003, 18:05: Message edited by: izaqyos ]

Gandalf Parker · #2 October 8th, 2003, 07:10 PM

There is never a "best". For any question. There is only Pros and Cons.

As for the Elric map it was an excellent Elric map. As close as anyone could get to creating a theme based map in Dom 1. I hope he will tackle it again with all the new options that Dom 2 will gime him.

johan osterman · #3 October 8th, 2003, 07:13 PM

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Originally posted by izaqyos:
Just so we don't fall short on topics...

I refer to the map for DOM-I.

Now this is a great map. I really like the detail given to starting positions and climate/geography.
Plus it's a quite diffcult.
I wonder if the person that designed it is a member of this forum. I'd like to first commend his great work and second to ask if he has made more maps.

edit
topic subject
BTW,
has anyone tried the elric map?
is it a good map?

perhaps I should post a poll to find out the best created map for DOM-I.

Its Kristoffer who made it, he made all the dom 1 maps made by illwinter, that is all maps except: realmwars, hexmap, northamerica, hexblitz, elric and dandellion. He has also made all but one of the dom 2 maps, and that map he has converted from an existing ma of brittain.

[ October 08, 2003, 18:14: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

PDF · #4 October 13th, 2003, 09:59 AM

BTW, IW people and betatesters, can you give us a primer on the Dom2 maps

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Will we have our old Dom1 faves ? What are the new cool maps and scenarios/scripted maps ?

johan osterman · #5 October 13th, 2003, 12:18 PM

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Originally posted by PDF:
BTW, IW people and betatesters, can you give us a primer on the Dom2 maps ?
Will we have our old Dom1 faves ? What are the new cool maps and scenarios/scripted maps ?

The old ones are easy to convert to the dom 2 format, takes a little work but not to much, but they will lokk the same way they used to. Kristoffer has also redrawn the Urgaia map. Currently there is only one* scenario, if I recall correctly.

*EDIT: I remembered wrong, there are 3 scenarios.

[ October 13, 2003, 11:21: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

Kristoffer O · #6 October 13th, 2003, 05:12 PM

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Originally posted by johan osterman:

quote:
Originally posted by PDF:
BTW, IW people and betatesters, can you give us a primer on the Dom2 maps ?
Will we have our old Dom1 faves ? What are the new cool maps and scenarios/scripted maps ?

The old ones are easy to convert to the dom 2 format, takes a little work but not to much, but they will lokk the same way they used to. Kristoffer has also redrawn the Urgaia map. Currently there is only one* scenario, if I recall correctly.

*EDIT: I remembered wrong, there are 3 scenarios.

That is also wrong, there are 4 that I can think of.

PDF · #7 October 13th, 2003, 09:42 PM

Well, maybe 5 scenarios now ? Who told 5 ??

And are there other new "vanilla" maps (I mean non scripted, or just a little) ?

johan osterman · #8 October 13th, 2003, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by PDF:
Well, maybe 5 scenarios now ? Who told 5 ??
And are there other new "vanilla" maps (I mean non scripted, or just a little) ?

There are currently 7 maps in total, one of which is Urgaia and one that is the British Isles. And this time I actually checked and counted in order not to make an *** of myself again.

Jasper · #9 October 14th, 2003, 08:17 AM

Will you publish the maps in their original layered form (presumably still done in gimp)? I remember there were a couple of the larger maps from Dom 1 that I liked, but they just had too many provinces for my taste (e.g. Old World, Cimmeria). It would be cool to be able to easily tweak them.

Kristoffer O · #10 October 14th, 2003, 05:06 PM

Unfortunately the maps in Dom I wasn't made in layers. I have remade Urgaia. I rescaled it, replaced most colours with some beige, pasted mountains and forests from other maps and finally redrew the borders. Didn't take too much time. I will make a library with mountains and trees etc for those of you who doesn't like to draw. This will hopefully increase the number of player made maps.