BITTERFROST - Test of Time Version

[curtsibling]

LOL!

Sorry techumseh , that was a cut and paste malfunction there!

I was aiming that post at your good self, I didn't copy your name right, and Koby's name was still in the cache!

I miss a turn!

[curtsibling]

Now I have had a chance to check out Catfish's Bmps at home, I can see they are wonderfu!

Well done that man!
He has captured the cold, snowy feel of the Bitterfrost world!

I would ask if he fancied helping with the terrain of the other realms, but I dont want to push it!

Again, simply awesome!

[Catfish]

Originally posted by fairline
Catfish: let's not go down that road with the sheep again!

I have no intention of heading down that path again! Fear not Fairline, I will leave you to your own devices.

Originally posted by curtsibling
I would ask if he fancied helping with the terrain of the other realms, but I dont want to push it!

He might.

[curtsibling]

Catfish, yer the man!

It's not set in stone yet, but I have these terrain concepts in mind:

Imperion map: Fertile and green richlands, farms, livestock timber bonuses...Some tiles may be houses...

Undead map: Black and barren doom lands, tons of ruins, bones etc. Water will be oily and inky.

Ancient map: Bizarre rocky land, with perhaps a purple or glassy unatural terrain. Many crystal-like areas...

What do you think?

Of course there is no major rush, I know you are a busy guy, and Bitterfrost ToT will be an ongoing development for a good few months or so.

[Catfish]

Sounds fine to me. I’d stick to placeholder graphics in the early stages of development. At this point it’s likely that you will make frequent changes to the scenario, with new ideas and gameplay issues regularly cropping up. You don’t want to get into the mindset of trying to accommodate a cool graphic at the expense of gameplay, either (I’ve been there before).

Glassy terrain, eh? We don’t have shaders in ToT, you know.

[techumseh]

Curt (and others thinking of trying a ToT scenario) you might want to look at this scenario from Daftpanzer: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=99099 It's very good, and he exploits the multimap features well.

[curtsibling]

Nice one, techumseh!

[curtsibling]

@Catfish :

Yep, those where just my general ideas. To give you a inkling of what I had in mind.

Obviously, the maps are still at an early stage and while I reckon not much will be changed drastically,
there may be some new features, to take advantage of the ToT extras.

As I said, nothing is set in stone!
I'll keep you posted!

[fairline]

Originally posted by Catfish

I have no intention of heading down that path again! Fear not Fairline, I will leave you to your own devices.

[curtsibling]

LOL!

I might even include a sheep unit!


*joke*

[Catfish]

Originally posted by fairline

Well, a catfish can’t pass up bait like that.

Originally posted by curtsibling
I might even include a sheep unit!

Well, there are some in terrain1.bmp already.

[Catfish]

Been working on the mountains to make them tile better. Maybe will add some snow tops later - as long as it doesn't stuff them up.
- tweaked coastlines and some resources.
- need to tweak forests.
- need to add ruins to terrain1.bmp.
- not keen on any single river set ever released for Civ2. I may consider doing something about this.

[curtsibling]

Beautiful work, Catfish!

Visually, this scenario is going to be a feast!

I'll get working on those maps this weekend.

[techumseh]

bump.

[curtsibling]

You Bumped?

I will give this scen some attention at the weekend.

Right now, I am snowed under with University work!

@techumseh:

If you are around, could you tell me what is required for a multimap scen, in terms of graphic and text files?

Do I need only one rules, etc?