What about the "SCENARIO EDITOR"?

[hjarg]

Considering that the game will not follow specific historic events for specific countries and the way the map looks, what about a... random map generator?

Big naaah to that. One thing is leading your troops on a sucessful sack of Paris and colonizing Americas while crushing Aztecs. Another is sacking a random piece of land that for some reason has been named Paris and colonizing random blob of land.

 

[Gwalcmai]

Another is sacking a random piece of land that for some reason has been named Paris(...)

Paris, Texas.

 

[Elmokki]

If the map is modifiable I'm actually pretty interested on a semi-random map generator. I need to see how it'll work

Europe would still be the same, most of the africa and east would be the same.

Completely random America, some randomness in southern part of Africa and eastern part of Asia.

 

[unmerged(37697)]

If the map is modifiable I'm actually pretty interested on a semi-random map generator. I need to see how it'll work

Europe would still be the same, most of the africa and east would be the same.

Completely random America, some randomness in southern part of Africa and eastern part of Asia.

That would be fantastic, but presumably very difficult, if not simply impossible.

Imagine four smaller continents in the area that we know as the Americas - that would be fantastic. Totally random exploration

 

[Prince Ares]

Considering that the game will not follow specific historic events for specific countries and the way the map looks, what about a... random map generator?

Won't it? No French or English civil war? No Brandenburg forms Prussia? No Moscuwy forms Russia? No Manchu takeover? No new Rome?

...... AGGHHRRR!!!

EDIT: Where did you find that information?

 

[TheDarkside]

I wouldn't mind a random map generator. It would then be kind of like Imperialism, where you have the recongizable Great Powers but their countries are totally random and so is the New World. And they all start out equal strength.

And a scenario editor is not as easy as you seem to think. I was working on one for several months but I quit because it was getting too cumbersome... I'm working on something else now

 

[George LeS]

If the map is modifiable I'm actually pretty interested on a semi-random map generator. I need to see how it'll work

Europe would still be the same, most of the africa and east would be the same.

Completely random America, some randomness in southern part of Africa and eastern part of Asia.

I could not agree more. I'm not talking about a wholly fictional earth, but one in which the initial TI is really "incognita", not just unseen. Hy-Brasil, California, & India MIGHT be islands, etc. Make it possible that shores & provs move just a little, or randomize the populations & resources. It'd put us in a position closer to what Columbus & Da Gama faced. Ideally, it would be possible to vary the hidden areas for whatever country you start with. Of course, this is a dream, maybe for EUV or VI.