FAQ - New Map

[Sizzix]

This map isn't going to appear to be made of squares when forests are concerned and what not is it? If you look at our current map and zoom into any of the jungle area you can see nice clear cut squares.

This has killed the man.

 

[Elz]

... Nah, this isnt anything like that. xD

 

[Naelwyn]

How are the new map's hydrostatics?

Will we have another Thill, where the water falls off in waterfalls on both sides of a river?

Do we have any rivers bisecting continents, like the one in the jungle?

 

[Cap]

How are the new map's hydrostatics?

Will we have another Thill, where the water falls off in waterfalls on both sides of a river?

Do we have any rivers bisecting continents, like the one in the jungle?

i complained to readij on skype for what felt like hours for this

hopefully it's a little bit better

 

[IceandFire]

How are the new map's hydrostatics?

Will we have another Thill, where the water falls off in waterfalls on both sides of a river?

Do we have any rivers bisecting continents, like the one in the jungle?

From our understanding:

- The new map is going to have better hydrostatics than the current map. Nothing is ever perfect, but we're hoping to do our bests. No more Thiil water issues.

- Looking at the map, there are some pretty size able rivers running through the continent.

 

[Naelwyn]

- Looking at the map, there are some pretty size able rivers running through the continent.

...

 

[Rygan]

Naelwyn is asking if there are any rivers literally cutting the continent in half from one end to the other like on our current one.

 

[IceandFire]

No. There are rivers running throughout the land mass, but nothing that splits it entirely in half or anything like that.

All of this will be shown once the map is released through Dynmap.

Apologies for the confusion.

 

[Megadonkey30]

Return of earthspawn? I think so..

 

[Jazzper]

Return of earthspawn? I think so..

 

[Tomato150]

Spawn?

This is just a general question related to everything about it

 

[Ced]

Spawn?

This is just a general question related to everything about it

It'll depend on the outcome of the various spawn surveys we're going through: you guys will decide.

 

[Archbishop]

Spawn?

This is just a general question related to everything about it

I have a 5 step plan in place, but as Ced said, it'll depend on player votes, player imput, and staff discussions. We're only on Stage 1.

 

[Mryosi]

Would the staff consider lowering the price of WE requests for a short period of time after the transition?

I'm sure that the staff team would do everything it can to make sure that each region fits perfectly to its surrendering but there are things within the region that would probably need changing as well. Anything from terraforming mountains which are part of the region to even changing a mass amount of colored clay to match the biome.
I might even want to change a harbor-town to a land town with no river/sea access.

We even have cretin windows that are lined with the sunrise and sunset- having the view blocked by mountains would pretty much ruin it.

I don't expect it to be free but I do predict that I will want to make a lot of changes to make it a perfect fit in the new map and lowering the cost of WE by some would really help out a lot.

 

[Cap]

Something about cutting out mountains and rivers and that kinda shit feels really wrong and against the spirit of the new map to me, Mryosi.

 

[Mryosi]

Something about cutting out mountains and rivers and that kinda shit feels really wrong and against the spirit of the new map to me, Mryosi.

I'm talking about mountains and rivers which are already part of the region which will be copied to the new map

 

[NIAH]

Unless I'm mistaken, the staff will be editing the regions that are moved to fit the terrain, so players won't have to worry about it as much if there's some terrain that doesn't quite fit. I could be wrong though, but that's the way I'm reading it.

 

[Sankera]

Oooor we don't strain the staff by wanting to WE over entire landmasses and just WE over builds....

 

[K9]

Oooor we don't strain the staff by wanting to WE over entire landmasses and just WE over builds....

The query is about builds that are integrated into the land that surrounds them. Examples : Hound Ru, Legion's place, Thiil

-K9

 

[Sankera]

The query is about builds that are integrated into the land that surrounds them. Examples : Hound Ru, Legion's place, Thiil

-K9

Mmmkay, though there's a way to copy a building with little terrain right? Like we aren't going to copy whole terrains because that'd likely end up bad looking, a better looking way is to copy the buildings you really want and place them in certain areas and not drag and drop em.