New map by Jason Lutes

J. Lutes · #1 April 2nd, 2004, 01:04 AM

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Originally posted by tinkthank:
Hey great map so far!
Had to restart the game a few times, however, because of these errors:

120 is labeled plains
167 is labeled plains
121 is labeled sea

I have never done this before, but what I did was open up the map file and look where things looked ok to me and just copied that in. So I erased the "0" at 120 and replaced that with a "4" -- seems to work so far. I hope this is correct?? Can it have repercussions on other things? Well I hope I didnt break it.
thanks much once again
best to you

Crud! I guess I was not as thorough as I should have been in my testing! Thanks a lot, tinkthank. I will edit the file and send Kristoffer yet another update. In the future I will try to get the maps more thorughly playtested before putting them Online.

J. Lutes · #2 April 2nd, 2004, 01:10 AM

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Originally posted by sergex:
Awesome map! I'm looking forward to playing many games on it.

I, too was curious about province 120. Is it supposed to be underwater or more like a floodplains?

120 is supposed to be a water province.

What's weird is that in the file I have, 120 and 167 were wrong as tinkthank has noted, but 121 is marked correctly. I can't figure it out.

I'll hold off on sending Kristoffer another update for another day, in case any more errors are detected. Please let me know!

Cainehill · #3 April 2nd, 2004, 01:46 AM

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Originally posted by J. Lutes:
That's correct, they are non-navigable. I know it's a little weird -- especially since on this map water nations can't cross rivers just like land-based nations -- but I was more comfortable with it that way. I love Targa's maps and the way he uses rivers, but my bias is against the water nations -- they're too scary to have popping up unexpectedly in one's back yard!

I know I'm not the only one who's glad for the way you did rivers. On that one map (Karan), several of us have discussed the way the rivers give aquatic nations easy access to almost any area of the land masses. I won't go so far as to say that it's unbalancing, but it certainly is disturbing.

Karacan · #4 April 2nd, 2004, 02:45 AM

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Originally posted by Miguel Duran:
Wow. A map of Martin's Westeros would touch me in my happy spot. That would be unbelievably cool.

Just scan in the (very good) boardgame's map.

Just a bit low on provinces, though, especially for five players.

Excellent map, by the way.

If you are looking for ideas, I'd like to see a two-player waternation against waternation game, with lots of seas (preferably with two levels) and a few isles scattered across the surface.

Cainehill · #5 April 2nd, 2004, 03:44 AM

Mmm - wouldn't it be better if the #dom2title line went back to saying something like "Cradle of Dominion", as I believe was originally the case? Same thing for the Parganos map, actually.

I mean, it's nice to be able to know the size of the map - but given that the #dom2title line is what's displayed while selecting maps, the more descriptive one naming the map seems better to me.

"A map with 135 provinces"
"A map with 339 provinces"

These just don't mean much to me, y'know? Best of all might be,

"Cradle of Dominion - a map with 221 provinces"
"World - a map with 339 provinces"

I'll be doing this on my own Version of the .map files, but it seems like it was worth pointing out.

Not to be in any way shape or form to be interpreted as criticism - I love a number of the new community created background maps. Just that the #dom2title line is better in a more descriptive form, imo.

Pax vobiscum.
RIP

Cainehill · #6 April 2nd, 2004, 03:49 AM

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Originally posted by Karacan:

quote:
Originally posted by Miguel Duran:
Wow. A map of Martin's Westeros would touch me in my happy spot. That would be unbelievably cool.

Just scan in the (very good) boardgame's map. Just a bit low on provinces, though, especially for five players.

There's a boardgame now? Blood and bone, I'm getting old! Time was, I'd know every fantasy-based RPG or strategy board game out there. And Martin's Westeros ("Game of Thrones", etc) series is such an awesome milieu and writing, head and shoulders above most of the competition (Guy Gavriel Kay excepted).

Cainehill
(Wow! I'm a Corporal now! *Huzzah!*)

liga · #7 April 2nd, 2004, 11:35 AM

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Originally posted by Cainehill:
There's a boardgame now? Blood and bone, I'm getting old! Time was, I'd know every fantasy-based RPG or strategy board game out there. And Martin's Westeros ("Game of Thrones", etc) series is such an awesome milieu and writing, head and shoulders above most of the competition (Guy Gavriel Kay excepted).

Yes .. there is a boardgame (from Fantasy Flight) and is also a good one ... strategy, diplomacy ... I'll try to make a picture of the map and convert it in a TGA file to use with dom2... but I don't know if it is legal.

good play
Liga