Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => Modding => Topic started by: Mart on April 17, 2015, 05:49:03 PM

Title: [EGM] Chiron new map - worlds creators!
Post by: Mart on April 17, 2015, 05:49:03 PM

And over here discussing the new Chiron map.
Part of the EGM effort (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=16382.msg71505#msg71505).

The original Chiron map has:
3 continents, major ones.
1 large island - Isle of Deianira
1 smaller island - Isle of Dexamenus
moderate number of islands
coastlines are very much developed, especially those 2 largest continents.

Googling, I found it in someone's imageshack:
(http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6617/chirondrafthuge.jpg)

New map o Chiron, what general map features like mentioned above do we design?
how many continents?
how many major islands?
etc...

Blueprints of continents shapes are welcomed too.

Title: Re: [EGM] Chiron new map - worlds creators!
Post by: Geo on April 17, 2015, 06:12:56 PM

IIRC from an old tile count, the current 'official' map (standard size) has about 50% land tiles.
Also IIRC, the designers back then deliberately created long and narrow peninsula's/continent connections to mask the AI flaw of sending out an assault force dripwise (they tended to cluster in the narrow passages).

I think my only wish would be a that all natural landmarks are present.

Title: Re: [EGM] Chiron new map - worlds creators!
Post by: Mart on April 17, 2015, 07:54:01 PM

Quote from: Geo on April 17, 2015, 06:12:56 PM

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I think my only wish would be a that all natural landmarks are present.

I was thinking about placing even more, like those proposed by Googlie in CGN SMACX Academy:
- Fungal Barrier
- Marshes
- Range of several volcanoes
- etc.

We can think of more new ones.
And we can develop the map further in later releases making it more fun and better.

Title: Re: [EGM] Chiron new map - worlds creators!
Post by: Mart on April 19, 2015, 09:07:09 PM

This is maybe something many people thought about, not necessarily in this arrangement:
Just to give something to reflect on.

(http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B8Q6s6tA4mcbY0tKOUZaSFVwVnM)

The new map could be something, that would not be based on Earth map.

My first thought is 2 large continents with developed coastal line, that is that you can move around each of them without Doc. Flexibility/foils.
Arrangement, roughly north-south, but what would be even more interesting something different, maybe more developed shapes, but not east-west (both of them).
One of my existing favourite maps is "robsworld" - maybe someone remembers that map, but new map would not be a clone of that.

Title: Re: [EGM] Chiron new map - worlds creators!
Post by: Mart on April 19, 2015, 09:19:05 PM

Going further with Earth map analogies in fantastic worlds.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (game which I played and mostly gamemastered years ago)
They do not hide the similarity there, which is very interesting

From warhammerfb/wikia:
(http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B8Q6s6tA4mcbaEM4dnU2ZGZRR0E)