Cradle of Zen (.map file) and a question!

Haven't heard much feedback from the Cradle, maybe because not enough people have been playing it. (It is after all a large map).

How are people liking it (other than those who posted, thank you all.)?

If this one goes favorably I might do a redux of a few other maps which are what I like to call, terrain challenged. (This breeds all the problems with the map as far as population and sitage.)

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Zen:
Haven't heard much feedback from the Cradle, maybe because not enough people have been playing it. (It is after all a large map).

How are people liking it (other than those who posted, thank you all.)?

If this one goes favorably I might do a redux of a few other maps which are what I like to call, terrain challenged. (This breeds all the problems with the map as far as population and sitage.)

Do you intend to (permanently) host the files for your modded maps? Or would you like me to?

If I'm going to do more, I'll just make a bundle pack. Making a good .map file is alot less intensive than say, finishing this RQR's Last prettying touches, or waiting for a patch so I don't have to change it again

[Daynarr]

Originally posted by Zen:
If I'm going to do more, I'll just make a bundle pack. Making a good .map file is alot less intensive than say, finishing this RQR's Last prettying touches, or waiting for a patch so I don't have to change it again

Could you make a .map for Karan with magic sites in it? I tried to do it already but RL got me half way through.

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Zen:
Haven't heard much feedback from the Cradle, maybe because not enough people have been playing it. (It is after all a large map).

How are people liking it (other than those who posted, thank you all.)?

Still too early into a game on the map to reallly say; I have noticed one more bug in the map file though. Now provinces 136 (Toemuck Fen) is connected to 141 and 124, and shouldn't be. 136 should only have the two neighbors - I suspect you may've added the links on purpose, but it's one bottleneck that should remain, imo.

(The province in question is the standalone triangular province on the far east side of the map about a quarter of the way down.)

[ July 21, 2004, 15:07: Message edited by: Cainehill ]

There is one reason why that is no bottlenecked. And that is because most of it is Swamp, and there are very few units with any sort of Swamp Survival. Also the "PURE" bottleneck when moving into two different terrain type flags (Like the terrain switching from Forest to Swamp) caused the superslowdown of troop movement. I removed most of those including that one.

If you don't like it, that is of course your preference, but if I left all the swamp provinces exactly as they were and didn't change terrain the speedbump, 1 Strategic move a turn, would remain, as it is now the addition of different neighbors with a movable terrain type (Plains/Swamp) allow at least nations that are supposed to move well in that terrain (C'tis) the chance to do so, while still slowing down every other nation.