Gandalf's Crazy Solo Games

[Gandalf Parker]

Since some people have shown an interest....
Here is one of the ways I like to play Dominions.
http://www.Dom3Minions.com/RandomMaps/MegaMap.zip

It has 1495 provinces, 3 large oceans and 3 large land areas. You can play with all the other nations in your era and still have wilderness between you making scouting for them an effort. And there lots of impassable mountains creating chokepoints. It also has various surprises scattered around the map so be sure to SCOUT CAREFULLY before attacking a province.

I also added a short script that shows how I generated the additions that are scattered on the map. The "interesting.yab" isnt needed to play the map but if you have a YaBasic or some other basic then you might use it to generate surprises for other maps also. Or re-generate the surprises on this one if you play it enough to get to know whats there.

Warning: generating the world at the beginning of the game can take awhile

Gandalf Parker

[aku666]

Wow, now that's a huge map. It's very tempting to try it but I'm afraid, that the turn generation time would leap to at least 10-15 minutes...

[Gandalf Parker]

On my machine it takes 3 minutes to create the game, and about a minute to process the turns. But it is a nice new windows machine. The hosting time is just long enough for me to stop waiting and realize I should probably try to accomplish at least one other thing than playing Dominions all day.

I wasnt really sure if anyone would want to play it but I like it. It feels more strategic to me to be able to do any tactic I want. Small maps tend to force too many issues.

[Wish]

man my machine was top of the line a couple years ago, and it takes like 10 minutes to creat 5 minutes per turn

it really does have a large wilderness feel to it though.

[NTJedi]

Gandalf Parker said:
On my machine it takes 3 minutes to create the game, and about a minute to process the turns.

How long does it take to process turns on large maps during late game??

[Gandalf Parker]

My game is on turn 39.

The only really large game I have numbers on is on my server. If you look at
http://www.dom3minions.com/games/PvK-e-Oceania/
Its on turn 74, started with 79 nations, and is up to 17 minutes to process a turn

[Loren]

Just don't play with LA Ermor on a map like that. Turn generation could be utterly insane.

[PhilD]

I tried a game vs 20 or so Impossible AIs, as MA Man, and had the good surprise of getting a free Horror... Now, 10 turns into the game, it's been solo conquering a province per turn, and largely leads the Hall of Fame with 129 kills...

Since it's got Tough Skin, I want to see how high its Protection can go - currently 26, I know it can do better than that...

[Jack_Trowell]

A free horror ?!?

How could you get a free horror exactly, without using wish ?

For what I understand, Gandalf script only add random units/labs/temples and forts in independant provinces.

Do you mean that map settings that add units and commanders are not overwriten by the nation starting units when the province is set as a capitol ?

[Actuarian]

You are crazy!

I'm guessing you set research at the slowest level. What do for the other settings on these really big maps?