Should R'lyeh and Atlantis swim upriver?

Argitoth · #1 February 6th, 2004, 07:01 AM

Actually you can!

Norfleet · #2 February 6th, 2004, 07:54 AM

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Originally posted by Argitoth:
Actually you can!

Meh? That's not in the mapedit manual. That isn't even part of the editor. How's that work?

#3 February 6th, 2004, 07:57 AM

[Bad Diagram of Impossibility Removed]

[ February 06, 2004, 07:19: Message edited by: Zen ]

Norfleet · #4 February 6th, 2004, 08:45 AM

Well, according to the mapedit PDF, the #neighbour command says "Makes it possible to move between these two provinces in both directions". I was under the impression, therefore, that the single command set a symmetric link, and you didn't need two commands to set a link between two provinces.

This is further corroborated by looking at a map file, where there's only one #neighbour command linking a pair of provinces, with no second #neighbour command for the reverse link.

So by setting #neighbour A B, you've automatically set the reverse link, and the command #neighbour B A is redundant and does nothing whether it's there, or you remove it....

Am I missing something here?

#5 February 6th, 2004, 09:11 AM

It might have been discussed and my memory only held apart of it.

Edit: Yep. It was an "As of yet" comment before the actual release

Here is the link: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=000499#000006

So the word is not yet, but maybe in the future.

[ February 06, 2004, 07:19: Message edited by: Zen ]

Catquiet · #6 February 7th, 2004, 12:38 PM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
Connecting the lake DIRECTLY to the sea would be a little much, since it's equivalent to teleportation.

Why not make one or more intervening river provinces? Make them small, set them to have no population or sites, and let them swim through those: If the river provinces are rather long and border many land provinces, this also gives Vanheim, CoTS Marignon, and anyone who forges a Pocket Ship the interesting ability to sail the rivers.

Or you could have a water-filled cave system, bordering the ocean and the lake but no land provinces.

Pocus · #7 February 7th, 2004, 04:42 PM

Targa, for the artistically challenged, do you plan to write a small (or not so small) tutorial about how you manage to create a so exquisite looking map? The 3D outline of the coasts really puzzle me. I'm awed (well perhaps not awed, but impressed!).

[ February 07, 2004, 14:42: Message edited by: Pocus ]