seeking SMALL maps

Ragnarok-X · #1 February 4th, 2004, 10:08 PM

hi everyone,
im enjoying playing small maps, so my recent games were all played on Orania and the Sundering. Those maps are STILL too big for me (mid/late game) so im looking for maps with approx 20-25 regions, made for MAX 3 players and not so open combat, there should b e some lakes or mountains to give the map depth. It should be some isle, though its not a must-have

Does anyone know of any maps that could be made the way i like it ?

ty in advance.

Targa · #2 February 4th, 2004, 10:34 PM

Have you checked out Talis yet? Take a look at Illwinter's maps page here:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/maps.html

Norfleet · #3 February 4th, 2004, 10:41 PM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok-X:
im enjoying playing small maps, so my recent games were all played on Orania and the Sundering.

Meh? Orania is a small map? I thought Orania was the biggest stock map in the game?

Gandalf Parker · #4 February 4th, 2004, 10:44 PM

Illwinters site has Talis, Mirrunst, Ring World.

Or I could run you off a quick 20 or 30 random maps of that size and pop them up on a web page for downloading. They would be ugly. There would be provinces marked as forest and mountains but have no pretty trees and mountain images there.

Ragnarok-X · #5 February 5th, 2004, 06:06 PM

um yeah i was wrong with Orania, i was playing the sundering and the emergence of something back then. sorry

@ Gandalf: What would be PRETTY nice, just 2-3 maps would be enough. They dont have to look nice btw.

Gandalf Parker · #6 February 5th, 2004, 06:47 PM

http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...ndomMaps/tiny/

No nice web page. It was a script so I can rerun a batch anytime. There is an index image. And a big jpg of each map. The seperate .tga and .map for each one. And a zip of tga/map together.
Good? Its easy to make a change and run it again.

Norfleet · #7 February 6th, 2004, 03:30 AM

Well, for small maps with intense action, nothing beats my 17 province map, intended for use with all 17 nations. It's not much to look at, since I made it with the flood fill and select tools, and therefore it consists of green, blue, and red for province borders, but hey, it's definitely small. Mostly, I use it for testing, but if you really want a SMALL map, I can give it to you.

Ragnarok-X · #8 February 7th, 2004, 10:40 AM

Norfleet: would be pretty nice. where can i find it ?

@ Gandalf, thanks for the work, but those maps are STILL too big. 50 land and 10 water ? it would be really nice if you could lower that to say 25 land and 5 water, i.e. a max of 30, better 25 provines.

thanks you two !

PhilD · #9 February 7th, 2004, 11:58 AM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok-X:
Norfleet: would be pretty nice. where can i find it ?

@ Gandalf, thanks for the work, but those maps are STILL too big. 50 land and 10 water ? it would be really nice if you could lower that to say 25 land and 5 water, i.e. a max of 30, better 25 provines.

thanks you two !

You can find a small collection of randomly generated 30-Province (25 land, 5 sea) 800x600 maps here .

(I admit, I haven't looked at them; no guarantee...)

Gandalf Parker · #10 February 7th, 2004, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok-X:
@ Gandalf, thanks for the work, but those maps are STILL too big. 50 land and 10 water ? it would be really nice if you could lower that to say 25 land and 5 water, i.e. a max of 30, better 25 provines.

Wow. OK a fresh batch is in place with 25 land and 10 water.
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...ndomMaps/tiny/

To me that forces all the strategy to be "my army bigger than your army". No room for strategic maneuvering, choice of provinces for chokepoints, hide-n-seek which is the advantage of some nations. But if there is a need for tiny-fast then I will whip up a batch.

I guess I could put this on a daily run with more variations. Let it randomly decide a number 10-50 for land and 2-50 for water? Something like that?