If I were Gasnob, I'd keep Gazi if it still had some decent captured infrastructure and population, and just settle a filler city to eat those grasslands to the west of it.
Uhhh...Yuris seems to be under the impression that there might be another continent. Didn't the mapmakers tell everyone that there wasn't? If yes, are we allowed to tell him that there isn't? I mean, it's too late to really matter now, but it's strange to me that he doesn't realize this.
Merovech's Mapmaking Guidelines:
0. Player Requests: The player's requests take precedence, even if they contradict the following guidelines.
1. Balance: The map must be balanced, both in regards to land quality and availability and in regards to special civilization features. A map may be wonderfully unique and surprising, but, if it is unbalanced, the game will suffer and the player's enjoyment will not be as high as it could be.
2. Identity and Enjoyment: The map should be interesting to play at all levels, from city placement and management to the border-created interactions between civilizations, and should include varied terrain. Flavor should enhance the inherent pleasure resulting from the underlying tile arrangements. The map should not be exceedingly lush, but it is better to err on the lush side than on the poor side when placing terrain.
3. Feel (Avoiding Gimmicks): The map should not be overwhelmed or dominated by the mapmaker's flavor. Embellishment of the map through the use of special improvements, barbarian units, and abnormal terrain can enhance the identity and enjoyment of the map, but should take a backseat to the more normal aspects of the map. The game should usually not revolve around the flavor, but merely be accented by it.
4. Realism: Where possible, the terrain of the map should be realistic. Jungles on desert tiles, or even next to desert tiles, should therefore have a very specific reason for existing. Rivers should run downhill or across level ground into bodies of water. Irrigated terrain should have a higher grassland to plains ratio than dry terrain. Mountain chains should cast rain shadows. Islands, mountains, and peninsulas should follow logical plate tectonics.
Merovech Wrote:Uhhh...Yuris seems to be under the impression that there might be another continent. Didn't the mapmakers tell everyone that there wasn't? If yes, are we allowed to tell him that there isn't? I mean, it's too late to really matter now, but it's strange to me that he doesn't realize this.
I guess you could remind him, or just let him find out after the game, since it's over soon anyway.
We did say "no islands" so maybe he figures there are continents... Although he could just check the number of land tiles from the score mouseover to realize that's not true.
novice Wrote:We did say "no islands" so maybe he figures there are continents... Although he could just check the number of land tiles from the score mouseover to realize that's not true.
Okay, "no islands" can I guess be interpeted that way, and I'm not sure I should tell him no continents, because that would king of be like doing the land tiles thing for him, and as far as I know, he hasn't posted a socre mouseover picture.
Merovech's Mapmaking Guidelines:
0. Player Requests: The player's requests take precedence, even if they contradict the following guidelines.
1. Balance: The map must be balanced, both in regards to land quality and availability and in regards to special civilization features. A map may be wonderfully unique and surprising, but, if it is unbalanced, the game will suffer and the player's enjoyment will not be as high as it could be.
2. Identity and Enjoyment: The map should be interesting to play at all levels, from city placement and management to the border-created interactions between civilizations, and should include varied terrain. Flavor should enhance the inherent pleasure resulting from the underlying tile arrangements. The map should not be exceedingly lush, but it is better to err on the lush side than on the poor side when placing terrain.
3. Feel (Avoiding Gimmicks): The map should not be overwhelmed or dominated by the mapmaker's flavor. Embellishment of the map through the use of special improvements, barbarian units, and abnormal terrain can enhance the identity and enjoyment of the map, but should take a backseat to the more normal aspects of the map. The game should usually not revolve around the flavor, but merely be accented by it.
4. Realism: Where possible, the terrain of the map should be realistic. Jungles on desert tiles, or even next to desert tiles, should therefore have a very specific reason for existing. Rivers should run downhill or across level ground into bodies of water. Irrigated terrain should have a higher grassland to plains ratio than dry terrain. Mountain chains should cast rain shadows. Islands, mountains, and peninsulas should follow logical plate tectonics.
Thanks for another GG Commodore! Enjoy the WW
