Anyone else's random maps always narrow land masses? Never see huge continents

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I play on the large maps - and almost every one I generate is a long, winding narrow land mass that meanders all over creation.  I have yet, out of 20+ games, had a map that feels like a large continent.

I'd be interested in hearing what others are experiencing in this aspect?

Also, are there ever oceans or is all the land always connected?  I have always had the entire map connected - which makes little sense.

Are there ever any islands?

Share your experience please - I'm highly interested in knowing what is possible with the generator - and since you have to play a whole game to find out I'd like to hear from others.

Thx,

J

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I usually play small-normal maps, and I often get big continents. There's always some choke points either through water or mountains though. And I've had maps with Islands yea. I never build harbours, but I remember this one map where I elevated all the land upto an island because one of the quests wanted me to go there.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

The normal game does not really generate random maps. When you choose large, theres only a couple of possible landmasses you can get, only the resources and starting positions are randomized.

I highly suggest you take a look at this: https://forums.elementalgame.com/395529

It's a true random map generator for elemental. Currently i am playing with 4 opponents on a really huge landmass - turn almost 200 and i have contact with one of them(via a long, long-range scout) :)

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Stax77, thank you so much for the map generator!!!

The game seems made for an epic size map with much slower contact - although the out of memory errors become problematic.

But, this is wonderful!  I'm making maps of 256x256 and enjoying epic games - thank you so much!

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top


I play on the large maps - and almost every one I generate is a long, winding narrow land mass that meanders all over creation.  I have yet, out of 20+ games, had a map that feels like a large continent.

I'd be interested in hearing what others are experiencing in this aspect?

Also, are there ever oceans or is all the land always connected?  I have always had the entire map connected - which makes little sense.

Are there ever any islands?

Share your experience please - I'm highly interested in knowing what is possible with the generator - and since you have to play a whole game to find out I'd like to hear from others.

Thx,

J

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The ones i've played all seem to be that way, it might be the way they keep the AI from owning the whole world by turn 50. Since it seems able to go into infinite debt and generate pioneers every turn. I played one game where i ran into an empire city on like turn 8, on turn 5 i had run into a stack of 3 pioneers.