Re: Reading maps from .map files
Any programming language could probably do it. Afraid I cant help you with the Java thing, I do mine in Basic.
I think you would be working with an array. Read in all of the #neighbor lines as a starting point.
The problem with "areas" is the same problem that we had with DomMap working with terrain. If an area is too large then you have people landing somewhere on the map which might be fantastic all around them, or horrible all around them. Of course some of that is going to happen but you might want to make sure that its not TOO far for a player to reach for something else.
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