Topic: Lesser Ring: Another attempt at creating an interesting, large, balanced 8-player map

PkK Topic Opener Joined: 2012-01-06, 12:19 Posts: 236 Widelands-Forum-Junkie	Posted at: 2012-02-29, 20:57 Basically the same ideas and principles as in my Ring map, but smaller. I consider this map to be more suitable for typical games. The map can be found at http://pholia.tdi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~philipp/widelands/ As Ring, the map is based on the following aspects wanted to see in it: Somewhat realistic division of geography - rivers flow glaciers in the mountains through hills and finally plains to the sea. Somewhat realistic distribution of resources: Different resources often found at some distance to each other. Gold is valuable, and thus rare, especially in the early game. There are places of strategic importance, such as river crossings, that military action focuses on. Philipp Edited: 2012-03-01, 18:05 Top Quote

PkK Topic Opener Joined: 2012-01-06, 12:19 Posts: 236 Widelands-Forum-Junkie	Posted at: 2012-03-01, 20:36 I have observed a couple of all-AI games on this map in the last few days. As a result I made a few changes (mostly more coal helping the barbarian AI and more rocks helping the Empire AI, Atlanteans are already doing very well). Philipp Top Quote

PkK Topic Opener Joined: 2012-01-06, 12:19 Posts: 236 Widelands-Forum-Junkie	Posted at: 2014-03-06, 23:24 I updated the map for build 18. The map has seafearing (and was made from the beginning with efearing in mind), but seafearing is not a dominant feature of the map. Philipp P.S.: So far I also like how the AI behaves on the map in build 18. Top Quote

PkK Topic Opener Joined: 2012-01-06, 12:19 Posts: 236 Widelands-Forum-Junkie	Posted at: 2014-04-18, 14:34 Here's the minimap: Philipp Top Quote

PkK Topic Opener Joined: 2012-01-06, 12:19 Posts: 236 Widelands-Forum-Junkie	Posted at: 2016-02-19, 23:42 The map has been updated for the current develpmetn version of widelands and uploaded: https://wl.widelands.org/maps/lesser-ring/ Philipp Top Quote

gnarfk Joined: 2015-01-05, 16:18 Posts: 70 Likes to be here Location: France	Posted at: 2016-08-18, 14:33 long time ago, i posted an idea about creating maps using symmetries. https://wl.widelands.org/forum/topic/1634/ If you want to create a balanced 8-player map, we could use vectors. Example for 8-player map : if the map is of size 320 * 320. we could repeat everything 8 times, by using the vector (40,120) (40 to the right, 120 to the top). Top Quote