Seeking map or need advice on making it

[diamondspider]

Originally posted by Targa:
Today's sneak preview:
http://www.techno-mage.com/~targa/webmap.jpg

Very sweet 3D effect on the water!

Best map ever

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Targa:

On another note, does anyone know how Dom2 calculates province richness? I see in the map editor and docs that you can assign multiple values to a single province. ie:

Province A is assigned "farm"
Province B is assigned "farm" and "rivers"
Province C is assigned "farm" and "forest"
Province D is assigned "farm" and "mountains" etc...

How do these affect cash production of the provinces? Does "A" produce more money than the rest? What does designating it as "rivers" do? I know that the terrain types will affect movement rates and the chance of finding a magic site, but unsure of how it affects money (other than that the designation of "small" vs. "large" will have an effect). If I have a province that looks like this:

http://www.techno-mage.com/~targa/province.jpg

It's meant to be a farm province with mountains around it to limit access (the mountains are impassable). Will making it farm + mountains reduce income?

Farms have higher populations. Most other terrains lower pops. Pop gives income. Large have higher pops. Small lower pops. Rivers have higher income , but can be flooded. Farms have lower res. Mountains and forests higher res.

Farm+mountains=not very high pop. Quite high res. Do not remember specifics. It is a random value based upon terrains and size IIRC.

[Targa]

If I had to guess, looks like ~140 land provinces (for anyone interested). Also, if you look on the far-right-top edge, that's a pic of the real stonehenge.

Zen: Yeah, saw that (river). Actually, the map doesn't look like this at all. I saved it, then added the 3-D effect and anti-aliasing and made a copy for the web site. I can't do 3-D until Last, but I wanted to post an attention-getter since that may be the Last update before it's finished. Will tweak that bot-left river.

Water nation access: Should I put that to a vote? Connect sea provinces to the inland lakes (via swimming upriver)? Opinions welcome. Dunno what's up with the whirlpool, it just appeared by itself... hehe, J/K. I think the water looks too boring so I pasted that in there while experimenting. I need to add wave/whitecap grafix somehow.

Kris and DS: Thanks!

Edit:
I have yet to play R'lyeh or Atlantis, so I'm definitely gonna need feedback on that question.

[ February 05, 2004, 22:28: Message edited by: Targa ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Targa:
Water nation access: Should I put that to a vote? Connect sea provinces to the inland lakes (via swimming upriver)?

Yes. And yes!

Everything that connects within one river. Should work. But you should also note that it does cause Atlantis and R'lyeh to have a more defined advantage the more provinces they have access to from one point. In order to limit that a little you might want to change the size of the river province so they take up a little more space along the river.

[Gandalf Parker]

You cant really make a province both water and land. Either it will be water access or it will be land access. The only way to do it AFAIK would be to do a #neighbor link from the sea to the lake. It would be an instantaneus trip.

I always thought the water nations were pretty powerful already.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I always thought the water nations were pretty powerful already.

I don't know about Atlantis, but I must admit R'lyeh can be pretty powerful, in spite of illithid's drawbacks as discussed in other threads.