Maps other than Karan for 8 or so players

[Reverend Zombie]

I am getting tired of playing my 8+ player games on Karan.

What new maps out there are suitable & balanced for this number of players?

[Boron]

i would like maps which are unwrapped http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
i like the standard orania map but what i like most on aran/karan is they are unwrapped so once you conquer a territory at the egde of the map it is quite save and only in danger through teleport spells and so on http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

is there anywhere an unwrapped orania / desert eye for download where
1. the egdes don't look so cut off
2. neighbors of all brinks are corrected that the former wrapped orania neighbors aren't still neighbors ?

[Norfleet]

Well, there's the new Cradle of Zen that Zen tweaked. The old Cradle map was a kaleidoscope of clashing terrain flags that rendered the map impassable to any non-flying strat-move 2+ units, and made the map effectively a barren wasteland where population in excess of 5K was the exception, not the norm. Zen did some tweaks to make the map more playable to all races. I figure he needs some lucky victims to run a game on it now.

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:
I am getting tired of playing my 8+ player games on Karan.

What new maps out there are suitable & balanced for this number of players? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I rather like Parganos (by Jason Lutes); I think some people might have the same complaint they do with his Cradle map, in that there is an awful lot of mountains, forests, swamps, rendering slower movement and less gold income.

Tyrande is another; I think it has 103 provinces, making it good for 6 to 8.

As Norfleet said, I have made a few changes, mostly based on the desires of a few other forumites to modify some of the limitations of the Cradle of Dominions map.

Here it is, if you do not see the other thread.

www.techno-mage.com/~zen/zencradle.zip (http://www.techno-mage.com/~zen/zencradle.zip)

[Five Angels]

I have been playing hot seat on the middle earth map for 2 games now. For up to ten players, I recommend it.

[Skolem]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
Tyrande is another; I think it has 103 provinces, making it good for 6 to 8. [/QB]<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Unless you makes change to it is not suitable for MP (but very fun for SP), since the north is to poor and the center has a lot of really hard sites, wich makes it by far the best place to beginn.

Skolem

[Skolem]

Sorry double post http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/blush.gif

[ July 06, 2004, 20:58: Message edited by: Skolem ]

[Reverend Zombie]

Originally posted by Zen:
As Norfleet said, I have made a few changes, mostly based on the desires of a few other forumites to modify some of the limitations of the Cradle of Dominions map.

Here it is, if you do not see the other thread.

www.techno-mage.com/~zen/zencradle.zip (http://www.techno-mage.com/~zen/zencradle.zip) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What a nice-looking map. Just looking at it has gotten me wanting to host a game for the chance to play it.