[Mapping Request] - The Settlers

[Saphire]

Hi,
i am working on a settlers map and wonder if there is someone who likes to do the mapping that wants to join my project?
i need a big map wich looks like a real world, and natural (randomly spread, but not unfairly) recource areas (Clay, Wood, Sheep, Wheat and Stone)
the one(s) helping will be at the "Map creator" loading screen and given +rep

thx alot

My WIP thread

My project recruitment post

 

[~Void~]

Huh, so in your current terrain, it looks like you have two hexagon thingies. Is that what you want someone to make, or just fill a map?

 

[Saphire]

nvm the map in the wip thread, it is\was just for trigger testing purposes
i need a map that has this features:
added recource areas (they need to fit in naturally) so that the player feels like its "real" and nice, not "made" and unnatural

here you can see what i mean by natural fit, they blend i need them to blend.
this is not the kind of map i am looking for annyway, i need it to be biggg in size and mapped like a real world. some hight difrences, forests, small mountain areas, corn fields, sheep meadows... like a little hobbit country ^^
after i get the map, i will add circles of power at fitting areas (those in the pic below are nice) and when a player builds there, they get one of that recource when timer ends (each 3 minutes or so)
then after players have come far enough in research, the fighting for more recources, and at the end victory begins
the attachment is a map made by Chaos.


*Edit:
ok, there might be a little change in plans... if you feel like you are intrested in helping me with the mapping of "The settlers of Catan" you can say so, but if the changes take effect, the mapping will just be easier and requier less work... so this is the exstreme version

 

[~Void~]

I'll do it, but can it be a little bigger than that maybe? And do I have to surround it with just water, or can I make some other little islands too?

 

[Saphire]

i have decided
it should be like the one i attached, but immagine it laarge, and zoomed in so that those boats that are in the map (i need there to be nine of them, equaly distributed around the edges) are at the outer edges, in what i immagine is the end of a fjord coming from the ocean (traders from far-away countries)
and a villager in the map is small when he stands in the middle of a meadow, quarry or clay fiels (recource areas) and you can build 15 small villages (2-4 building) around the map, without building on top of eachother or start fighting without doing it on purpose

there are 5 difrent recources that need to be something distibuted in the following amount:
Sheep meadow: 4
Forests :4
Desert :1
Stone :3
Wheat :4
Clay: 3

but i immagine you making the doubble (i can make the areas, you just mapp so that it is possible
i can ofc make more wood areas out of one forest, but i need it to be in the same ratio as over (doubble and even prehaps tripple might work, but not 10 sheep meadows and 4 clay areas if you get my point

 

[~Void~]

I think I'm going to do double size, that should fill a 160x160 map, which is plenty; any more and noobs will get confused.

 

[Saphire]

ok... i guess that should be enough
just for comparrison, how large is dota?

 

[~Void~]

128x128

 

[Saphire]

sweet how long 'til u get finished?

 

[~Void~]

Probably a few days after you send me the map ;]

 

[Saphire]

you can just make a new one :]
i am working on the triggers, so i will have to import them when you finish annyway

 

[~Void~]

Sure.