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[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Leif_-:

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Originally posted by PvK:
"Dragon Sprinkle", for example. Or how about "After the Vampire Wars"

I threw together a Dragon Sprinkle .ran set-up, and included it in

I've added an After the Vampire Wars randomization as well. The maps have been regenerated, so you can check out both of those randomizations in action by downloading any of the maps at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/Domi...nion_maps.html

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Leif, you are taking the Lord of Randoms title away from me. I better get back to upgrading some of my projects.

One note by the way, some of your random maps I really like but I cant get a full view. It might say 220 provinces, and I can see about how much water there is, but I dont want to download it to find out if 120 of those are crammed into the water. Can you add land/water numbers to the thumbnail views?

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Leif, you are taking the Lord of Randoms title away from me. I better get back to upgrading some of my projects.

One note by the way, some of your random maps I really like but I cant get a full view. It might say 220 provinces, and I can see about how much water there is, but I dont want to download it to find out if 120 of those are crammed into the water. Can you add land/water numbers to the thumbnail views?

Sure, just give me a couple of days. (Oh, and you might also be interested to know that I store the command-line for dommap in a text-file in the .zip together with the map.)

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Can you add land/water numbers to the thumbnail views?

Implemented and applied.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Leif_-:

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Can you add land/water numbers to the thumbnail views?

Implemented and applied.

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Heehee. And just had to go over the top didnt you? Well Ok I see how you generated the numbers there. Hmmmm abit much bit-math for me but I might steal the idea someday

Hmmm I wonder if the web-based game site might not incorporate some of the randomizer routines as game options. As far as I know the players must have the .tga but not the .map file.

Also not a bad thought for challenge play. Generate a map (or select one from our sets) and make the tga available for download but offer a game without letting the players have access to the .map file. I wonder how many "expert" players that might mess up.

[ May 11, 2004, 19:35: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Heehee. And just had to go over the top didnt you? Well Ok I see how you generated the numbers there. Hmmmm abit much bit-math for me but I might steal the idea someday

*chuckles* Not really. I had to parse the .map file and do some bit-fickling on the terrain value to get an accurant count of the number of land and sea provinces in the map anyway, so there wasn't really any extra work in adding the rest of the data.

I've updated the DomScripts.zip, so you can always download it and steal the algorithm from the make_map_description subroutine in run_dom_map.pl

As for adding randomisation in as an option on the web-based game site, I believe that should be relatively straight forward (but don't look at me - I try to stay away from web stuff. It's evil. Evil, I tell you.)

[PvK]

Today's Random_7 is a very cool-looking map with two continents separated by a sea.

One thing that might be good would be to re-roll the maps and/or tweak the algorithm until you get a bit more spread of terrain types. There are many that have zero provinces with certain terrain types, but tons of another type.

E.g.:
194 provinces in total, of which 5 are sea and 189 are land.
0% farm, 54% forest, 74% mountain, 0% swamp, 0% waste, 0% river.
95% small, 2% large provinces. 6 nostart provinces.

PvK

[PvK]

Also there is a bug somewhere, hopefully just in the web statistics, where it says:

On average a province borders to 2.77 other provinces

It is always 2.something, but visually it is clear that the real average is much higher.

PvK