New Map: Faerun - The Forgotten Realms

[NTJedi]

Hopefully with Dominions_III gamers will have even larger maps which can be made. Right now I believe the limitation is 500 provinces.

[Norfleet]

The problem with both maps is that the actual sane limit on provinces is less than the maximum hardcoded limit: The Nation Ovwrview display will go nuts if you have too many provinces, and become truncated, at a point which falls short of the actual, hardcoded province max.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
Hopefully with Dominions_III gamers will have even larger maps which can be made. Right now I believe the limitation is 500 provinces.

Ahhh another giant map lover. I was beginning to get convinced that I was alone but my logs show that the Epic maps (500 province) get downloaded the most from my site. www.dom2minions.com

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Ahhh another giant map lover. I was beginning to get convinced that I was alone but my logs show that the Epic maps (500 province) get downloaded the most from my site. www.dom2minions.com

Definitely Huge Maps are the best!

If you ever owned an Amiga computer and played Settlers_2 you might have been able to see the World-Size_8 maps. Gamers would build their civilization for a few days and not run into any opponents. (days as in human days... where I was playing 5 hours a day.)

[ May 21, 2004, 23:43: Message edited by: NTJedi ]

[Daynarr]

After playing it a while I must say its quite nice map. The map looks more like a military then fantasy map so it gives you more “strategic” then “cartoonish” feeling – I like strategic better but I guess not everyone does. No borders are an interesting change but it fits the map style and I like it so far.

Overall, I'm having fun playing on it.

[Edi]

Thanks, Daynarr.

The no borders thing is out of necessity. There are so many ways of defining what areas belong to which province and how to draw the borders that it was just not viable to do it. Besides, I'd still be drawing them on the map if I had done it that way and the project would never have gotten finished.

Besides, the current tga file is easier to modify now. If you want a map with fewer provinces, just fill in the white pixels and put new ones where you want them and you'll get a whole different map. In fact, I might be inclined to do one if time permits and there is interest for one.

The reason why this one is so huge is that I'm a fan of gigantic maps myself, and of the Forgotten Realms as well, so it was rather natural to go for an epic map.

Edi

[Cainehill]

I'm not a fan of huge maps (because I don't have the focus / concentration / yearning for massive amounts of micromanagement for huge games), but this one does look like it'd be a lot of fun. Started a game as Pangaea, running my harpy scouts over to likely looking places of power - Zhentil Keep, etc.

Nice job with the places of power especially.

This map does highlight the need for the ability to change the color of the lines for the "neighbors" filter - both because there are no real boundary indications in the source map, and because the current color blends in with the map.

(And actually, to be able to have a small displayed icon for the central point of all provinces would be great too, and not just for this map - Urgaea, among others, has some provinces that are difficult to click on because of irregular shapes.)