Tourmaline - Mod Nations Game (Finished) - Page 9

Trumanator · #1 July 11th, 2009, 01:15 AM

So are we going with pre-set starts or not? IMHO it is going to be very necessary, since when I started up a game with all the nations I got several that had only 2-3 neighbors, and at least one instance of 2 nations sharing a neighbor.

rdonj · #2 July 11th, 2009, 07:38 AM

Yeah, I'm going to do pre-set starts. Bug hunting the mod yesterday took a lot of time and frankly I was just too tired to want to mess with the map at that point. But I will probably release a map later today. If not then early sunday.

rdonj · #3 July 11th, 2009, 11:22 PM

Okay, turns out I won't be able to get the map done tonight. Sorry about that. I will get that done as soon as I can tomorrow. I am looking at two potential maps. One with starts balanced geometrically and another taking geography more into account. If I do both of them I will submit both and have you guys decide which seems more fair. Or I will just do the one that is mostly planned out.

rdonj · #4 July 12th, 2009, 09:00 AM

Alright, the corrected version of the Tourmaline mod and the geometrically based map have been uploaded to the first post of the thread. I'll release the geographically-based one a little later today.

rdonj · #5 July 12th, 2009, 12:40 PM

Here's the geographic version of the map. I reached the upload limit for the first post so I have to put it here. Please state your map preferences, I hope to start the game sometime tonight.

Lavaere · #6 July 12th, 2009, 07:14 PM

Started two tests, sadly they both show as the same name so not sure which is which. But I prefer the one that actually found a start

rdonj · #7 July 12th, 2009, 07:46 PM

Both of the maps work fine for me. Did you use random nation assignment? There are no water starts in either map, so if any water nation was chosen that would cause the game to crash.

Lavaere · #8 July 12th, 2009, 09:38 PM

ah ok, maybe thats what happen. and it looks so purrdy. well either way I don't mind which one or what type of start really

rdonj · #9 July 12th, 2009, 10:00 PM

Okay well, not having heard either way I'm going to go with my preference, which is the geometric design from the first post of the thread. I'll set the game up now and hopefully we can get all pretenders submitted in the next day or two.

Edit: Or not? The llamaserver seems to be confused. I will have to pm llama about this. As he is away at the moment we may have to wait a few days to start the game. Hrmm.

rdonj · #10 July 13th, 2009, 07:16 PM

Llamabeast has identified the issue. Unfortunately I had to alter the name of the map image and change the .map file. So you will have to download these again from the first post. Hopefully with this done all our issues will be out of the way and we can move on with the game. Also I will set the game up shortly, so prepare your pretenders everyone.

Also, please make sure you have the correct version of the mod. Only 5 people have downloaded the new version out of 9 who need to. If you don't download the new version you will be plagued with battle replay bugs.