Archialeago or not?

[Martin the Dane]

I started a game selecting the middle land-coverage setting for archipelago, but so fra I have found 6 of the 8 known civs on one "island" spaning 80% of the way from south to north and 30-50% of the way east-west. Not excactly an arcipelago, so I tried creating a number of games and using the Civ3MultiTool revealed the terrain. What I found was that archipelago does not seem to mean "a group of islands", but more like "interconnected-islands-continents". I then created a game with 3G years and one with 5G years, in both cases I got continents.

Is there a setting that ensures islands with room for 1-2 starting positions? I prefer to have development time before running into and dealing with neighbours. Call it peasfull early expansion.

[trickey]

I don't think there is any way to ensure an archipelago turns out to be an actual archipelago.


Try setting land coverage to it's lowerst percent, that should make the islands smaller.

[Lord_Davinator]

ya hte creation itself is random... the computer does its best to mimic an archipelago... lower land percentage would definitely help

[Shogun Gunner]

Seems that map size may play a part in this? You guys that use the editor, could you determine if that is true?

I have better luck getting a scattering of islands with a world size HUGE/Small land size/Archipelago. Good for Naval Warfare!

Standard world size or smaller always gives me a bunch of linked landmasses on Archipelago.

[Shogun Gunner]

dp -- sorry, it won't let me delete

[Theseus]

Bigger maps are better generated.

[Sheik]

Bigger maps are better generated.

Yep. Same algorithms but a better result.

Try playing a bigger map or just use the editor to generate one and then if you like the look of it play it. I know that takes away from the fun, but if you really want to ensure that the game is archipegalo then you have to look at the map.