then I read some forum posts mentioning MGE in connection with that map. so I loaded it into the map editor in my MGE folder...

WOW!!!

WHAT A MAP!!! it's just like playing on the europe map with the world attached to it! it's so cool! some parts of the world (australia, americaa) are a bit narrow, but just look at Europe, how detailed and LARGE it is in a WORLD MAP!!!

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What if the Hokey-Pokey is really what its all about?

The one thing i have noticed is that there are many more advanced tribes on these huge maps, making the game even easier.

What i need is some of these advanced tribes in a small mp game.

The log is a pain in the @ss, but i might right a story about this whole endeavour

Maybe i will post it in the viking scribes.

Island civs still have a problem, the AI seems to have issues with extensive colonizing by sea.

otherwise maps like that would REALLY be helpful. now I had to reinstall my MGE version patch 2 to make a scenario because with the German patch 3 version I'm unable to save games in single player mode...

quote: Originally posted by Mercantile on 11-13-2000 02:32 PM Nice huge map though a duel on this puppy would be obscene

Considering 8 civs in early development stages; one might think it is a puzzling plan for AI's to spread into this much land... BUT, step back a little, and leave them build up an armada into their cities. What do you get?
I defy anyone to sustain ONE-ON-ONE battles on such a map, "after" eliminating six AI's. Almost forever reaching the maximum limits on UNITS and CITIES!
As for Multiplayers gathering? Icing on a cake.
Added valuable space to scenario building planners, too!

quote: Originally posted by Mercantile on 11-16-2000 08:34 PM actually the map is flawed and if you don't connect some of the smaller islands the ai will act retarded, and this is no joke. I analyzed it and it said more than 64 landmasses may cause the ai researched at a handicap. LOL like it doenst' already, so i connected some minor spots of no influence in reality. Seeker, your correct, the ai doesn't expand worth crap and the huts yield way too much bounty. I am a bit disappointed with the ai expansion as well. I have hardly expanded at all, in fact half of my cities are freebies and the ai is still behind me this map may not be what i thought it was. Now a random map may give better results.

Well, for the huts, I have to agree, that they are rich and ressourceful indeed. But playing on some random gigamap can limit the opportunities of bounty, as can also do, putting not so easy starting locations in my gigamap.

On the other hand, I am surprised to read that the AI seem to be more flawed than usual. I have never noticed that. Some tribes seem very effective, especially the expansionnist ones. Given good starting locations, they can be worthier opponents than usual.

All of this, still needs more testing.

quote: Originally posted by Mercantile on 11-13-2000 02:32 PM Well i downloaded the giga map and when i made a few tweaks , it stated more than 64 landmasses may cause the ai to be slightly hindered in its thinking or something along those lines. so i connected a couple of islands to alleviate the problem. Now if the ai is still as stupid, then i am going to be

I really don't think the 64 land masses is really a problem. Why alter the map for such a reason ? I love all those little islands.
But then I've got a computer with 192mb of ram and some decent processor speed ...

send it to

andz83@gmx.net

On further thought:
The 64 landmasses does not cause a research penalty to the AI. On looking it over, the AI still founds a lot of cities, the chinese built Cunaxa by 1600, it's just I am too huge and the map makes their empires look small.

"more than 64 land masses have been detected.
You may play on such a map but the intelligence level of the computer opponents may at times be slightly empaired"

quote: Originally posted by Mercantile on 11-17-2000 01:41 PM Hi Julius, i hope i didn't offend you with my comments on your new world map.

No, of course you didn’t offense me. It’s just that I think, the more realistic, the better it is.

Is that cool or what?

On the down side, I got royally creamed everytime I tried a continental tribe...something about all that expansion that made the ais beat me to a bloody pulp...but then, I used the unmodified version.

I'd be interested in trying the upcoming world map

quote: Originally posted by Mercantile on 11-17-2000 07:13 PM "more than 64 land masses have been detected. You may play on such a map but the intelligence level of the computer opponents may at times be slightly impaired"

This means that the AI will sometimes try to send units to places that they can't get to. The reason for the 64 landmass limit is that the landmasses are numbered from 0 to 63. All landmasses that are south of the northernmost tip of landmass 63 are also numbered 63. This numbering is used to define what a "continent" is for the Goto command. As a result, the AI will sometimes try to send a land unit from one continent 63 to a different continent that is also numbered 63.