Some map questions dialogue...

AMF · #1 February 19th, 2005, 01:53 PM

Have many of you ever played on a grid map? Do you find them boring? Interesting? Why? Just curious...

Thanks,

Alarik

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 19th, 2005, 01:55 PM

The Play By Committee game is using a spherical grid map.
Its pretty nice, with no borders or corners. Lots of ways to get where you are going too, so there aren't any chokepoints.

AMF · #3 February 19th, 2005, 02:04 PM

Hmmm...that sounds interesting...I'm sort of working on something very similar

I'm also thinking about things that, I hope, will challenge people's assumptions about maps and warp points and stuff like that...trying to mess with the basics of the maps and see what happens and how that affects peoples' actions in-game...ponder ponder ponder...

AMF · #4 February 19th, 2005, 02:08 PM

It would be nice if SE5 could have a map that was centered on one's home system, rather than on the middle of the map. That way, you'd never be sure until the end game where the edge of the map lay, and you'd get a better sense for exploring from home outwards, rather than, say, from the upper left to the center of the quadrant...

Suicide Junkie · #5 February 19th, 2005, 02:13 PM

I've you've got a good eye for 3D, you could make a map with depth.

Lay out your map in 3D, with connections, and then project it onto the 2D grid.

AMF · #6 February 19th, 2005, 02:40 PM

I've got some aspects of that going on, but doing too much 3d to 2d thinking makes my mind go mushy.

AMF · #7 February 19th, 2005, 03:53 PM

Anyone know if there is a limit to the total number of warp lines a map can have?

thanks!

Alarik

Alneyan · #8 February 19th, 2005, 03:56 PM

None at all, to the best of my knowledge (and after seeing some of those maps with wormholes everywhere). You can also override the "no more than 10 wormholes per system" limitation, though it will still apply for player-created new wormholes.

Hmm, answering this question is safe I guess, as you cannot use this knowledge against me. Perhaps I should get back to work though.

capnq · #9 February 19th, 2005, 04:03 PM

Grid is my least favorite map to play. I like to imagine that the galaxy map is an actual map of the stars' positions, and that conceit doesn't work for grids.

However, I think a grid is more interesting if you mod it so that the maximum warp points is 8 and the minimum angle is 40.

AMF · #10 February 19th, 2005, 05:15 PM

If I set a game to "allow map save during game" and a player saves the map, does that player get the whole map (ie:including those parts invisible to their empire)?

Thanks,

Alarik