does anybody else play with the additional planetary climates?

twoflower · August 21, 2003, 14:53

you can get the new climate settings at http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=94038
I got them and they add a new layer to strategy especially on a 181x181 arid/fireball/hugeland/3 billion year old map... it makes the great wall useful and imporant so it adds tension

Six Thousand Year Old Man · August 21, 2003, 22:40

I downloaded the new game.txt file... I may play with it, but haven't yet, as I have some succession game turns to play

Looks interesting. I like the idea of huge landmasses on gigamaps

rah · August 22, 2003, 08:19

And why does it make the GW more important?

Six Thousand Year Old Man · August 22, 2003, 09:56

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Originally posted by rah
And why does it make the GW more important?

I was wondering that. I thought a 3 billion year old planet would have more mountains and hills... which would make GW less important, wouldn't it (better defensive terrain)?

-Jrabbit · August 22, 2003, 11:13

Might make it easier to have a ground-attack-proof gold fortress (pre-howie)...

atawa · August 22, 2003, 11:17

With 3bil the land is usualy clustered, so when starting out on a big peace of grassland you dont have the natural defence points you get in say 5bil.

Ben Kenobi · August 23, 2003, 12:52

Hats off to Smiley for all of his hard work.

How old is this game and we are still finding out new stuff?

I would be interested to see the suggested Dune and Naval scenarios.

Six Thousand Year Old Man · August 23, 2003, 13:03

I have a question, and since the thread is here, I might as well ask it here as opposed to in the Creation forum:

If I start a game with these different settings, and save it, can I play it on the same version of MGE without the new game.txt file?

(I assume so, since the savegame is made up of the same tiles as any other savegame - the new settings just allow for more varied random starts.)

Naturally, I'm thinking succession game here

Mercator · August 23, 2003, 18:51

Indeed, the settings only affect map generation, so the extra lines are only important when you're choosing the options.

I'll have to try out some of these...

But, ahem... Does anyone know CivMapGen?

Six Thousand Year Old Man · August 24, 2003, 10:42

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Originally posted by Mercator
Indeed, the settings only affect map generation, so the extra lines are only important when you're choosing the options.

I'll have to try out some of these...

But, ahem... Does anyone know CivMapGen?

I have been to your site, Mercator, and IIRC downloaded a few maps

, but I didn't know about CivMapGen.

It looks good, too bad about the 10,000 tile limit. Viva la Gigamap.

Mercator · August 24, 2003, 13:53

Yes, it has some more odd limitations to the map size (I believe the width/height can only be multiples of 4). I tried to fix it by hexediting, but that didn't work... Wait a minute, I'll mail the creator.

It does an excellent job at generating random maps though (with plenty of parameters to tweak).