Map A little artisanal map... with 1225 provinces - Page 2

Gandalf Parker · #1 May 28th, 2007, 10:52 AM

My really large maps with specials tends to get complaints about lockups, but its really just that the game takes a LONG time to create the first turn. Especially if the map uses lots of randoms.

I find that assigning set items (instead of #randomequip), assigning province names, naming assigned commanders, etc will help with that lag.

PvK · #2 May 28th, 2007, 04:22 PM

BTW Gandalf, if you haven't tried playing on this map, I would recommend it. It reminds me of playing in some GM's giant RPG world. The different locations feel like they could have some background to them.

HoneyBadger · #3 May 28th, 2007, 11:22 PM

This looks really neat,
I'm holding out for the roomier 1500 province map though

PvK · #4 May 28th, 2007, 11:55 PM

Southern Hraak Forest (1186) looks like it should have Forest terrain.

HoneyBadger · #5 May 29th, 2007, 02:23 PM

Don't you know the legend?

The Elders speak of the time when the hemp plants in Southern Hraak grew as tall as trees and glittered with THC crystals as heavy as a thick snowfall.

Then one day the hoburgs moved in...

.................................................. .........

...but the Elders preserve the memory of that golden age.

PvK · #6 June 2nd, 2008, 02:17 PM

Yes, I've been playing a game (on and off) on this map for a year now, and am still quite enjoying it. There's an appeal for me to the hand-made role-playing origins of the map and also to the "it's enormous" factor!

I think it works well if, like me, you like to play in a thematic style, rather than treating the game as a logic problem to beat (though with mods, it could probably be made into a tough logic problem).

I have a couple of technical concerns though, about when my huge game might run into the hard-coded units-in-the-world limit (it hasn't yet), and a balance issue about when I will reach critical mass against the AI nations (though at that point, I could either declare victory or complaisance, perhaps letting many turns go by without doing much in order to let the AI regenerate a more interesting situation).

jfp3 · #7 June 30th, 2010, 04:59 PM

Hail Gents,

I just started a game on this map a few nights ago and have yet to figure out how to get a force to enter caverns. I have force at one end, left click normally to move to proper cavern province, but no corresponding line indicating a move shows up, nor does my unit indicate a "move" pending.

Is there something I'm missing to venture into the Caverns from the main surface? Help! I want to emerge at an unsuspecting nemesis' BBQ unannounced :-)

BTW...amazing map. Just amazing. Reminds me a bit of the old "Empire of the Fading Suns" game maps.