Earth map beta available - 14 civs 210x150

[Dogbreath]

OmniGod

Is it possible to import your partial map to CTP2? I think that it would make a great scenario for the European expansion into the Americas. Kinda like Sid's Colinization but with the CTP format.

Set up established cities in England, France, Spain, Netherlands, etc and set their tech to be fairly advanced, also set up a few nations like Mayan, Inca, and Native American with techs appropriate to their level.

Find some way to forbid (or make really stupid) the idea of attacking another home nation, possibly founding the European cities on 1-tile islands and giving them walls.

Basically, the goal would be for the advanced European nations to colonize the "New world" and the less advanced nations of America to try and fend them off.

Could lead to some interesting alliances. Might have to work on the personalities with regrards to expansionistic ideas and attitude towards being on the same continent.

What do you think?

[OmniGod]

quote: Originally posted by Dogbreath on 12-01-2000 08:45 AM Is it possible to import your partial map to CTP2? I think that it would make a great scenario for the European expansion into the Americas. Kinda like Sid's Colinization but with the CTP format.

It is a good idea... but when I tried to import it into CTP2 with no goods, no civs my computer just crashed... not sure if the map is just too big, or if there is something else that I am missing... I'll sort through my files to find the last update I did to it and post it on my games page hopefully by tomorrow, and you can try it out if you want, but don't yell at me if you crash

Omni

[OmniGod]

Okay... well I think that the map is complete as per a map only... I'll upload the finished version later tonight... now the next thing is that my hands are now idle...

And I hate idle hands.... anyone wanting a map for a potential scenario or just for a map... I'm open... and just remember that this map end up taking 20 hours of work over a week and a bit so no going hog crazy saying something like "a 500x1000 map by tomorrow of Madagascar"... not that anyone wants a map of Madagascar

Omni

Although I do have a feeling that North Atlantic to Mid-Russia will be the next large scale task... just maybe a super huge map of just Great Britian and Western Europe for MrFun
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[MrFun]

Hey, you can be my Santa Clause, Omni.

I know you have a life like everyone else does, so I might go ahead someday and make a Europe map on my own. But if you want to, you can let me know how it goes.

[LandBuilder]

Maybe it's just me- but my computer uses ZipZilla to unzip and I cannot get it to work. It is there in my WorldMap file under scenarios- but the editor will not recognize it nor will the scenario program.
Help- I sometimes have these problems!!!

[LandBuilder]

Thanks- I got pretty far- the file is now in the right spot, but when I load it in the editor, a voices kind of screams and does not load. Sorry to be so much trouble, but I love playing on the world maps.

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[Elucidus]

Omni,
Did you try the different start location types. Instead of placing settlers, try placing strat location by nation and see if that helps. I am not sure how these different start locations work yet but maybe one of them will help you out.

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Yours in gaming,
~Elucidus

[OmniGod]

That I did... and it causes a error in CTP2.exe.... and my computer crashes... it drives me absolutely nuts... I've also tried the other tabs available in the editor and it still crashes... my games seem to crash pretty often with any type of minor change...

Thanks though... any more thoughts

Landbuilder... I get the screams too but there is no problem with loading, I would suggest changing your userprofile.txt to include 14 players and try it again... other than that I'm not sure... I'll look at it later, but I think you might be the only one... sorry

Omni
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[OmniGod]

quote: Originally posted by LandBuilder on 12-02-2000 05:48 AM Maybe it's just me- but my computer uses ZipZilla to unzip and I cannot get it to work. It is there in my WorldMap file under scenarios- but the editor will not recognize it nor will the scenario program.

Okay my .txt file may not be the clearest, for this map to work as of today you have to take the actual map and place it into your ...\ctp2_program\ctp\save\maps and from there you load up the editor and choose to load map and one of the options should be World Map 14civ. Right now I'm having trouble with the scenario startup since it's hanging, and I don't have a clue yet as to how to correct that and another thing that needs to be investigated is when and if you save then load your game it doesn't work properly and automatically assumes you are the first player(England)... and again I don't know how to fix that yet, but I gather that one should correct the other... only time will tell

Hopefully that helps...
Omni

[LandBuilder]

Whew!! thanks I finally figured out how to get started and played several turns as England.
Can you run me step by step how I can play as America?
I tried the empire button and it appears to start as America then after one turn, goes back to England where it stays!!
thanks for all your hard work.

[OmniGod]

Okay...

To become the Americans you should go into the editor and on the empire tab select player1 on the far right column and change that to America, delete the settler in the UK and place on in America... near Washington is a good place. Then choose player13 and change that to English, and delete the player13 settler from the USA and place one in the UK...

You can do this for any of the players if you don't like the ones that are defaulted for the map... save the map and play on...

I thought about a release with a map for each civ.. then I thought... you guys can do the minor changes if you really don't want to be the english

Enjoy
Omni

[LandBuilder]

Everything worked as planned. Thanks for a great map!!

[Savant]

Great Map Omni! Took a look at it but haven't played yet.

Anyone up to making a mediterranean map that spans from Baghdad to London and Morocco to Moscow? It would include the entire Med basin and run East-West from Portugal to Azov. North-South limits would be approx Oslo and Gulf of Sidra.

I think that a map with those parameters would be ideal for ancient, middle age, rennaissance and even 19th century scenarios.


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'Blood will run'

[LandBuilder]

Omni God-
I am playing your map around year 1800- it takes 5 minutes between each turn. I am afraid it will take 10 minutes soon. I have a 600 Mhz- lots of mem- maybe 14 civ's are too many?
any suggestions on how to use your great map, but lessen the number of civ's?

[OmniGod]

quote: Originally posted by LandBuilder on 12-05-2000 03:24 PM any suggestions on how to use your great map, but lessen the number of civ's?

Landbuilder...

It's easy to remove some civs, just go into the editor and remove some of the settlers, if you left my default as was, if not then you probably set up nations and you'd have to save the map only and reopen the editor and place nations for say 8 civs... or however many you want...

Sorry that it slowed down, I never got to the 1800's so I didn't test for that range and the shear number of units the computer would have created. With my new map a bit larger, I may set the number of civs down to 8 to 10... but maybe the best answer is ATTACK more and kill the computer off quicker

Omni