Mistletoe - an LA game for busy people (in progress)

[Elos]

If it's not too late I'd join as Pangaea?

[Bananadine]

One more player, just in time! Recruitment is closed now.

[Bananadine]

Closed as of the moment after I added Elos, I mean.

[Bananadine]

Hmm I've had to learn and fuss about for a while to make my wrapping random map. I hope it's okay!

I am currently uploading a 7 MB .tga file to LlamaServer... over a modem.

[Bananadine]

THE MAP WILL BE ATTACHED TO A POST I MAKE SHORTLY AFTER THIS ONE.

I linked LlamaServer's entry for the map to my preceding post, thinking I could attach it there, but apparently I can only edit the first post in the thread. And I'm not attaching it to THIS one because I'm having trouble connecting to the forum site.

Anyway y'all can upload your pretenders now.

[Bananadine]

Here is a temporary link to the map.

[LDiCesare]

Province 38 is impossible to reach. If someone gets spawned there, like Ermorian cultists through an event, or worse a starting position, they will be impossible to reach until teleportation spells and such kick in.
Is it possible to change the map file so 38 gets connected to something?

[Bananadine]

Originally Posted by LDC

Province 38 is impossible to reach. If someone gets spawned there, like Ermorian cultists through an event, or worse a starting position, they will be impossible to reach until teleportation spells and such kick in.
Is it possible to change the map file so 38 gets connected to something?

Ahh what a strange thing. I assumed this was some little mistake I'd made in my manual fiddling with the map, but no, the game actually appears to have randomly generated Tibet or something. Yes, I can easily make that change in my copy of the map, but not in LlamaServer's copy... there doesn't appear to be a way to do that other than asking Llamabeast to intervene. It would probably be an easy change for him to make, but he is a busy guy. I could also change the map, delete the whole game, upload the changed map, and start a new game (a hassle for almost all of us, especially me).

It looks like this is not a big problem, unless, as you suggest, somebody's capital ends up there, in which case I would want to restart... unless it was Caelum I guess.

It seems like it wouldn't be too bad to start right next to that province--you'd maybe miss out on a high-population income source (until you could get in there magically etc.), but, well, too bad. A person with that problem might still be better off than somebody who started next to R'lyeh! Dominions is not entirely fair.

Does anybody see any other crippling problem that could stem from this? I don't. You wouldn't own the province unless you actually started there, which is pretty unlikely, so I guess a lot of the random events that could put units there just wouldn't happen, in the early game at least. It seems most likely that if we play with this map, the province will spend a year or three under Independent rule, which is fine, until somebody decides to invest the resources in using it as an interesting, unusual military base. Again, Caelum is a new player, so maybe we need not be too afraid of raptors infesting the plateau.

Of course I will look out for this strange occurrence in the future, regardless....

[Kojusoki]

I fully agree, maybe except that you dont like Rlyeh

[Bananadine]

Okay here is a permanent copy of the map file for the forums! Although who knows whether future game makers will actually want to use it, given its strange properties. (If you are a future game maker, see my previous post for information about said strangeness.)

Kojusoki, we'll start when everybody's got their pretenders in... unless somebody convinces me to change the map first, in which case we'll all have to resend our pretenders.