Gandalf's Crazy Solo Games

Gandalf Parker · #1 January 16th, 2007, 02:31 PM

Im not sure that those terrains are unused. They do show up in the generated maps, and I think they are supposed to affect the type of random sites that appear. Has anyone tested to see if they arent recognized by the game. Or they might be for the upcoming province project. But in any case, they would be good for recognition purposes.

Also; islands, lakes, peninsulas, lone mountains, caves (even if not marked as caves), multiprovince farmlands and swamps, valleys, and mega-connection locations. I had finally gotten the DomMap map generator for Dom2 to recognize some of those so I could program logical province names but the Dom3 generator kindof killed that project.

Theonlystd · #2 February 12th, 2007, 09:28 PM

Hey Gandalf dont suppose you could make a maps with those scripts but not quite as big. And Slightly bigger than the pokeeye ones. You know 500 Range or so =p

If you could id love yea a long time and stuff.

jutetrea · #3 February 13th, 2007, 02:11 AM

Great thread, tons of good ideas. Wish I could code my way out of a paper bag.

Anyway, didn't someone mention previously a desire for timed events? i.e. turn 10 x1 occurs, turn 20 x2 occurs, etc? Any progress on that front? Would make scenario building a real possibility?

Even a simpler method - take those "caspur found the deepest cave, vamp count attacks, knights attack, barbs attack" and pre-set a bunch of those to occur first turn - with custom heroes... for example - the five heroes want to free your nation, or bogus attacks, etc.

Going to try out the poke the eye out map (like my maps to be done in 2 or 3 longish sittings).

Just have to say thanks for all the effort!

Jack_Trowell · #4 February 13th, 2007, 05:19 AM

You can use my online tool at http://dominions.realites.org/ to add random stuff on any existing map file.

Just create a random map that looks fine to you, and upload the .map file with the randomize and/or freater manysites options checked.

Then save the results as a new .map file in your /maps directory, and launch the game.

reverend · #5 February 13th, 2007, 03:04 PM

I've been trying to start a game on the MegaMap. So far, I had no luck. It seems that the creation process simply grinds to a halt, fortunately, except for the game hanging, nothing else happens.

My specs are a 'lowly' 2.6 P4 with 1 Gig RAM.

I tried generating without any AI first, so that SHOULD lessen the load a bit. Still, after 10-15 minutes, the computer is still creating the world.

Is there an easy way to maybe generate the game in textmode, so it cuts back on CPU usage?

jutetrea · #6 February 13th, 2007, 03:48 PM

Been playing the poke in the eye map, love it.

One thing I wish - mobs/pretenders were categorized. i.e. militia - mid infantry = lvl 0, cav and some specials = lvl 2, mages = lvl 3, nasty mobs = lvl 4, pretenders = lvl 5...or something similar depending on difficulty. Then have lvl 4s and 5s just be commanders, with the rest being troops. Make sense?

Love the idea, love the randomness, love starting out with a free commander/stuff (I like it as an RPG as well, very commander concentrated - most of the fun for me). With that being said, its kind of silly when i start with a troop of horrors or a troop of melee pretenders

Or face them for that matter. I spent like 2 hours just re-creating games to see some combinations, some were super weak (mages w/o magic, some were unreal (20 free horrors/gatekeepers), and some just wierd (20 baphomats - immobile).

I tried Jack's tool once, and will be testing further. Is there a way to simulate the free commander/troops on yours Jack?

Speaking of re-creating games - is there anyway to just "re-create game" with all the same settings? Or to have a standard settings file that you can choose? For instance, I hate starting in the midst of a map and will recreate till I get near an edge (my form of cheating), but while its still only a 2 minute process to start up a new game it gets old. Any thoughts?

Gandalf Parker · #7 February 13th, 2007, 05:37 PM

At the moment those routines choose a random number from zero to the highest numbered unit in the game. It then makes that unit a commander, then selects another random number for what unit will be some bodyguards, and another random number for what is troops. The units in the game are not organized in any way that lets me easily select units that are leaders, or pretenders, or mages, or even water/land so the results are totally random. Anything can be a leader, anything can be a bodyguard, anything a troop, and if they drown in the first turn of the game then oh well.

To do more logical assignments, someone would need to go thru all the units in the game and make a text file of which are which so that my routines could select from it. Ive asked for it before but no one has done one.

jutetrea · #8 February 13th, 2007, 07:11 PM

hmm, bummer. Hopefully it will eventually come out, fun though

Gotta be unfair when i get 20 giants and a free bow of war and the AI gets a suped up mage with a slave collar

Other way around too, but then i just reload!

Jack_Trowell · #9 February 14th, 2007, 05:49 AM

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jutetrea said:
Been playing the poke in the eye map, love it.

One thing I wish - mobs/pretenders were categorized. i.e. militia - mid infantry = lvl 0, cav and some specials = lvl 2, mages = lvl 3, nasty mobs = lvl 4, pretenders = lvl 5...or something similar depending on difficulty. Then have lvl 4s and 5s just be commanders, with the rest being troops. Make sense?

I'm waiting for Edi to complete its unit DB. With it I will be able to add many more options to my randomizer, and use appropriate units depending on the province type

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Love the idea, love the randomness, love starting out with a free commander/stuff (I like it as an RPG as well, very commander concentrated - most of the fun for me). With that being said, its kind of silly when i start with a troop of horrors or a troop of melee pretenders

Or face them for that matter. I spent like 2 hours just re-creating games to see some combinations, some were super weak (mages w/o magic, some were unreal (20 free horrors/gatekeepers), and some just wierd (20 baphomats - immobile).

I tried Jack's tool once, and will be testing further. Is there a way to simulate the free commander/troops on yours Jack?

As dom3 works, if you start in a province where specific units/commanders have been added, you get them.

The "No start in edited provinces" option of my randomizer is there to prevent this to happen, in order to preserve some balance.

If you want sometimes to have additionnal units at the start of the game, just uncheck this option.

Of course if you start in a province with no units added it won't change anything, but you can also start with a mictlan Priest King and 5 Sun priest as units (perfect to start a blood economy when you start using "gift of reason" on them, it happened to me once)

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Speaking of re-creating games - is there anyway to just "re-create game" with all the same settings? Or to have a standard settings file that you can choose? For instance, I hate starting in the midst of a map and will recreate till I get near an edge (my form of cheating), but while its still only a 2 minute process to start up a new game it gets old. Any thoughts?

You can use the official map editor, or my online map editor, to add the "nostart" attribute to provinces you don't want to start in.

It is also possible to specify a province as starting point, but my map editor doesn't has this feature yet, you have to edit the map file manually for now

Gandalf Parker · #10 September 13th, 2007, 01:53 PM

This seemed the only appropriate thread for this. Two ideas came to me as I was nodding off to sleep. I had to up and make notes. Both of these are MAP commands (of course). Adding them to a map in order to get a very different game out of it.

The first idea is add a Wandering Monster (on a timer)
#computerplayer 79 4
#god 79 "Eater of the Dead"

This should put in an AI nation with lots of population and an Eater of the Dead which will start out in a tamed form. Once it eats enough of the populace it will break out across the map. Since its a nation in the game, every time you play the map it will be randomly located someplace.

Maybe also set scales and give it a strong dominion. Im not sure how that might affect things but it sounds like fun. Putting in a bunch of ally commands might also make it not attack AI's.

Other options for the monster might be Eater of Dreams, Eater of Gods, Hunter of Heroes but Im not sure what those are and how they operate.