How do I make custom maps?

[Erax]

In another thread about empire placement someone said the way to guarantee even empire placement throughout the quadrant was to make your own maps, place the empires manually and then give that map to someone else who thus wouldn't know exactly where those other empires were.

That would be me. Let us know how it goes.

[Captain Kwok]

A good idea is to generate a map in SE4 and then save it and edit with the map editor. Just add a few random player placement, save it, and start a new game loading that map! Do it fast and I guarantee you won't remember anything about the map or ask someone else to make one for you and send it.

[Silent Sorrow]

OK, just tried to use the map editor to make a map with four predetermined starting positions to test to see if everything is working correctly.

I did that and named the map. I started up a game and loaded up the map. Then I quickly picked three AIs plus myself and put myself.

Started the game. Problem is my start position is not one of the four I specified in the map creation phase. What am I doing wrong?

[Silent Sorrow]

Originally posted by Silent Sorrow:
OK, just tried to use the map editor to make a map with four predetermined starting positions to test to see if everything is working correctly.

I did that and named the map. I started up a game and loaded up the map. Then I quickly picked three AIs plus myself and put myself.

Started the game. Problem is my start position is not one of the four I specified in the map creation phase. What am I doing wrong?

I think I figured it out. Testing ...