Gandalf's Random Circus

[Psitticine]

I'd be in favor of it. The more maps available, the more options, and that ain't bad!

I also like the idea of a random name assigner. The maps would be rather sterile if they were either just numbered provinces or had the exact same names over and over again.

So, I guess that means I choose "1" from the list of options.

[LordArioch]

Some of those variants sound very interesting to play with also I must note.

[Daynarr]

Sounds really interesting. I will vote for 1 as well.

[Pocus]

good ideas Gandalf, and your utility can be the start to a random map generator (you will have to deal with the RMG cult then).

[Gandalf Parker]

Oh Im a charter member of RMG Cult.

Actually my programming level is not up to the full RMG. I can do the simple text things in sloppy and embarrasing basic code but not a TGA file. But since the source code for DomMap is available Im hoping that someone will take that and modify it otherwise my stuff will be stuck in Dom 1 mode.

I suppose I could make a Dom 2 Version for whatever is the biggest map that comes with the game but that would get old. Eventually someone would have to create a random tga generator.

[ October 10, 2003, 12:02: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Gandalf Parker]

WOW did no one ever tell me that my "small" maps and my "medium" maps were the same size? I didnt ever bother to look myself since I prefer huge maps.

OK the large maps try to get to 450 land and 50 sea provinces. It usually fails ending up with the 50 sea and around 375-380 land. The mediums were 140 land and 20 sea (basically 10 provinces each with a little over). The small maps NOW are 70 land and 10 sea. This basically gives 5 provinces each with alittle over if all the races are playing. I will take a look at them but that seems really tiny to me.

The problem is that Im not the right person to judge. I dont like the little maps. Keep in mind that these are for the random-luck games. Other people are manually creating the balanced chess-board style maps.

How does that seem to you people? So how does 500, 160, 80 provinces sound as map sizes?
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[ October 12, 2003, 15:01: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Daynarr]

Ugh, 500 sounds BIG.

Maybe adding something in between 500 and 160, like 250-300?