Faerun map? ... and others?

[jowe01]

I hear a lot about the Faerun map ... but i just cannot find it. Can anybody point me to a link?

More generally, is the a reputated map site somewhere on the web? This forum is nice to browse, but it it not the quickest way to find a particular map or mod.

[Jack_Trowell]

Almost all map from dominions 2 can be reused in dom3

You will find list of them on the official illwinter site :
http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/maps.html

There's also Arryn site at http://www.strife.com/dominions-2/files.htm#maps , and it inclue the Faerun map (also the dom2 version, there's an edited .map file for dom3 that has been done and can be found on this forum).

And of course this forum, and the dom2 map forum, are both good source, if you're not afraid to search.

[jowe01]

Jack_Trowell said:
... there's an edited .map file for dom3 that has been done and can be found on this forum).

And of course this forum, and the dom2 map forum, are both good source, if you're not afraid to search.

Thank you very much for the information. Could you point me to where on these forums the updated DOM 3 Faerun map is available? I have intensively searched the forums, both "manually" and using the search function.

It seems that compared to DOM 2, there seems to be much less support/resources for DOM 3, both from Illwinter and the community. That is somewhat of a pity.

[Agrajag]

jowe01 said:
It seems that compared to DOM 2, there seems to be much less support/resources for DOM 3, both from Illwinter and the community. That is somewhat of a pity.

I think this is more because of that Dom3 is still new, while Dom2 has been out there for a while.

[Edi]

As the author of the Faerun map, I can tell you beyond any doubt that there is, as of yet, no updated Faerun map available. I will make one available for the 283 province version as soon as I get the database of units, weapons, armor, poptypes, magic sites and other stuff finished enough that I can release it (even if the release version is not quite the final version).

The reason for the scarcity of Dom3 documentation at the moment is that frankly, I produced most of the important documentation for Dom2 (units, weapons, armor) that was used both for modding and mapmaking, and I've not had a chance to complete the Dom3 version yet.

On the easily available Faerun maps on Arryn's site, I might also make versions of the 424 and 324 province Faeruns available, but 324 at least is very doubtful, because it is by far the worst of those three in terms of how it plays.
If anyone can point me to an online map of Kara-Tur and the Hordelands, preferably versions that are compatible with the existing Faerun, then we will see a full Toril map.

Edi

[Gandalf Parker]

The number of maps, mods, etc that are available for Dom2 was spread over years. If you broke that down into how many per month then Id suspect that Dom3 is actually ahead of Dom2. Im sure that we generated the help docs for the mappers and modders much quicker this time so we should see even more soon.

[Edi]

True. The first version of the Dom2DB came out in, what, June 2004? At the rate I'm going, the DB will take just a month or two at most to complete and it will be something far more comprehesive than all the stuff I did for Dom2. That'd be a lot earlier relatively than the Dom2DB.

The Faerun 283 map will take no more than a week or two to make the versions for all three eras.

Edi

[calmon]

In moment we play a MP game on faerun map. There are some provinces with set features and some of them missed the #killfeatures command before the feature list.

For example: Its a little bit frustrating to kill all the undead in northern thay (307) and after the work is done you only found 1 or 2 of the promised features. The rest was displaced by some randoms.

Maybe you could check it for the new version edi.

-- Northern Thay
#setland 307
#nostart 307
#lab
#feature "Catacombs"
#feature "Graveyard of the Damned"
#feature "Marble Mausoleum"
#feature "Halls of the Dead"
#commander "Lich"
#comname "Szass Tam"
#clearmagic
#mag_death 6
#mag_fire 3
...

[Gandalf Parker]

It would probably be a good idea if one of the map-offering websites were to create a subcategory specifically for Dom2 maps that have been tested or modified to work with Dom3

[Manuk]

Isn't Faerun where Neverwinter Nights it's located?