Modified Parganos map file and image

[llamabeast]

Attached is:

- A modified .map file for Parganos, which aims to make it a much fairer map to play on. Previously one nation could easily be stuck in vast expanse of wasteland, while another sat cheerfully in the farms. The distribution of terrains is now much more even, while attempting to maintain some correspondence to the picture.

- A modified image file. I found the one with the game to be a bit washed out. In this one the borders are more visible and the colours more vivid. You should back up your old parganos.rgb file before unzipping this one into your maps directory.

[Zylithan]

good add to the public pool

[Burnsaber]

I might be just a Turd, but I see no attachment.

[llamabeast]

Ahem. Fixed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[llamabeast]

Scarily, despite there being 17 downloads, I've only just had a report that this map didn't actually work! In my enthusiasm with the recolouring I had made the crucial white pixels in each province off-white, so it didn't work. Fixed now, so please download again. I also took the opportunity to make the seas a deeper blue.

[Edi]

I took a look at that. The recolored image looks great, the colors are a lot sharper and fresher.

It may be that the fixed map files for both Parganos and Cradle that I posted way back when will now make it to the next patch so the official versions will be the fixed ones instead of the Dom2 era first drafts. That alone will improve playability on Parganos quite a bit, though the empty wastelands pose problems of their own with giving some nations better expansion options territory wise.

I had discussed the official patching of the map files with KO in the past, so I tossed that in when I sent them a general email summary of several mod related things.