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Old February 11, 2000, 23:19   #1
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Really large map sizes...
I just started playing a game with a map of 255 by 255. It's 200 or 300 years into the game and I have had no troubles at all so far. I'm actually looking forward to having the time to get all the techs and upgrades for a change. Anyone else try stuff like this?
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Old February 12, 2000, 02:19   #2
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I've played several 1000 x 1000

90% waterworld can be quite lonely, especially if playing double blind, tech stag (I went over 200 years beforew meeting another faction, and almost that before getting flexibility - I was on a 20 x 20 tile island)

No problems with the game slowing, and when I
did get satellites, the AI had done a masterful job of seabase building.

Tried it on a 50% land map, and eventually gave up - it really bogged down between turns after 2300, as the AI made its moves.

Mostly now I play on 480 x 420, and have no problem with mostly land or mostly water.

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Old February 13, 2000, 20:37   #3
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For me, I like big maps, and a medium amount of land. For me, my fun always seems to reside in building not for war, but for my own faction. Granting, having someone to compete against is nice, but there is something about building up stuff just for yourself.

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Old February 14, 2000, 14:30   #4
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googlie:when i play on a larger-than "huge" board, all of the landforms go funny on me. continents get stringy, for lack of a better term, and even on 10% water, it still is about 50-50... that is when i'm home to play...

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Old February 14, 2000, 17:37   #5
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I like playing on unusual sized maps, like 40x160, the minimap is really distorted, but the games are usually quite interesting when you can only expand in two directions.
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Old February 14, 2000, 21:05   #6
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Try changing the alpha.txt settings for a Huge map from their listed 64 x 128 to 512 x 1024 (or 600 x 800 or whatever your preference is). The land distributes fairly normally - Map of Planet on that huge size is awesome.
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Old February 15, 2000, 12:37   #7
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cool. i'll have to try that when i get home... i'm still stuck in this friggin' recording studio. however i have been drafted for a major project... can't say any more on that, but hopefully i'm going home soon.
 
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Googlie: How do you get Planet map to scale up? *boggle*
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