Map Suggestions?

[Chazar]

Thufir said:
Orania is perfectly acceptable, but it bugs me a little to play on a donut - are there any maps out there that have just horizontal wraparound?

Just to be nitpicky: Orania is a ball(sphere), where a horziontal-only wraparound map yields a donut (torus)...

EDIT: I am wrong in what I have written above and I damn well knew it! Orania and other wrap-around maps can be projetced on a torus. Consider a straight horizontal line like earth equator (which in fact is circle): If you move it upwards, that line decreases in length until it reduces to a point at the north pole. This is not what we encounter on a torus and neither on orania. A great circle on orania does not change its length when shifting it upwards or downwards.

[Stossel]

Ringworld is nice, would definitely give new players lessons in strategic placement of castles/temples, trying to gain choke points, cutting off those pesky bolts in which nations can come in from far away.

[Thufir]

FM_Surrigon said:
Ringworld is nice, would definitely give new players lessons in strategic placement of castles/temples, trying to gain choke points, cutting off those pesky bolts in which nations can come in from far away.

That sounds interesting - has anyone played Ringworld in MP? I'd hate to be first to try it out in MP, this being a newbie game and all.

How many players will Ringworld accomodate?

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Chazar said:
Just to be nitpicky: Orania is a ball(sphere), where a horziontal-only wraparound map yields a donut (torus)...

Sorry, but you're wrong. A flat map that connects its West to its East and its North to its South is topologically equivalent to a torus, not a sphere.

[Turms]

Chazar said:

Just to be nitpicky: Orania is a ball(sphere), where a horziontal-only wraparound map yields a donut (torus)...

Just to be nitpicky: The original poster is correct. Horizontal-only wraparound gives a cylinder

I too would prefer more cylindrical maps. Those donuts are not very intuitive IMO.

[Thufir]

Turms said:

Just to be nitpicky: The original poster is correct. Horizontal-only wraparound gives a cylinder

I too would prefer more cylindrical maps. Those donuts are not very intuitive IMO.

Well, one day, once I become an expert Dom2 player (and what does that usually take people - a year or two? ) I may go into the map creation business. It'd be nice to make a few cylindrical maps complete with bigger provinces on top and bottom to approximate a sphere.

It'd also be nice to have more pretty maps that are also good for MP. The Faerun map is gorgeous, and I love playing SP on it, but so much of what makes it great for SP makes it bad for MP. Maybe Edi's new map resolves that conflict, but I suspect that's a difficult issue to work out. Karan is nice to look at, but the lack of any wraparound can work out to screw your starting position.

[PashaDawg]

Thufir said:

It'd also be nice to have more pretty maps that are also good for MP.

That french map on the Illwinter map page is very pretty!