ICONS on the MAP???

[paraderain]

I see icons on the strategic map like crowns, houses, valcano's and other things, what do these represent on the map? If there's a page in the manual that describes these what page it is please?

[Ironhawk]

Most of that stuff is just eye candy on that map. No meaning unless the map is specially designed with certain magic sites appearing in provines that have interesting graphics.

As for crowns, are you talking about victory points? When you started your game, did you set the win condition to use victory points?

[paraderain]

No these are crown icons on the map and they aren't in every provinces just a select few. Same as the houses and volcano's and stuff.

[Edi]

They represent victory points. Mouse-over or right clicking on the icon should give you an idea, or hitting 'i' when the province is selected, I don't remember which one it was.

[Gandalf Parker]

Actually I think that the "eye-candy" can have a function also if it was a map generated in Dom3. The map file does mark certain terrains as prime for certain magic sites, and the eyecandy such as the volcano or monolith will often match up to those sites.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I believe victory points show up even when they're not a victory condition. Don't worry about them, though they may help spread dominion.

[Edi]

Gandalf Parker said:
Actually I think that the "eye-candy" can have a function also if it was a map generated in Dom3. The map file does mark certain terrains as prime for certain magic sites, and the eyecandy such as the volcano or monolith will often match up to those sites.


That's the best explanation I've seen so far. I've never used those special terrain types, so I don't know and I've never seen them. Time to give it a try, I think...

[Arralen]

Eye candy? Bah ....

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
Decimal Bitmap (3byte?) 2^x Terrain
Number 321098765432109876543210

0 000000000000000000000000 =plains,nothing special
1 000000000000000000000001 =small
2 000000000000000000000010 =large
4 000000000000000000000100 =sea
8 000000000000000000001000 =rivers/freshwater
16 000000000000000000010000 =mountain
32 000000000000000000100000 =swamp
64 000000000000000001000000 =waste
128 000000000000000010000000 =forest
256 000000000000000100000000 =farm
--------
512 000000000000001000000000 =nostart
1024 000000000000010000000000 =manysites
========
2048 000000000000100000000000 ="deep"
4096 000000000001000000000000 ="cave"

8192 000000000010000000000000 ="firesite" (vulcano)
16384 000000000100000000000000 ="airsite" (?)
32768 000000001000000000000000 ="watersite" (lake)
65536 000000010000000000000000 ="earthsite" (?)
131072 000000100000000000000000 ="astralsite" (?)
262144 000001000000000000000000 ="deathsite" (house)
524288 000010000000000000000000 ="naturesite" (tree)
1048576 000100000000000000000000 ="bloodsite" (????)
2097152 001000000000000000000000 ="priestsite" (menhirs)

4194304 010000000000000000000000 =bordermountain
</pre><hr />

[Ballbarian]

Here is what I had so far:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
"firesite" 8192 - MAP SYMBOL= volcano
"airsite" 16384 - MAP SYMBOL= ice/cloud looking thing.
"watersite" 32768 - MAP SYMBOL= blue water pool thing.
"earthsite" 65536 - MAP SYMBOL= green man!
"astralsite" 131072
"deathsite" 262144 - MAP SYMBOL= house? maybe coincidence?
"naturesite" 524288 - MAP SYMBOL= the dome looking thing.
"bloodsite" 1048576
"priestsite" 2097152 - MAP SYMBOL= tan jutting stone.
</pre><hr />

Pardon the crude symbol descriptions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Kristoffer O]

Some site types share icon atm.

[thejeff]

The volcano seems very likely to have the Steel Ovens (20% off Construction site)
I haven't found anything as dramatically worth it for the other path sites.

And I'm still not sure why the victory point provinces show up on some random maps, even without victory conditions active.

[Gandalf Parker]

The dome thing appears to be the early version of an astronomy lab which fits astral.