@Stonewall571 Hi Stonewall

Not hard to change, but as cernel says, you have to make a separate mod to the existing map.

Which isn't that hard either. Which map are you trying to change ?

@CrazyG Well mostly the good habits are the opposite of the bad ones 🙂

But I think the key tends to be that there are a lot of options so you get a good variety of moves/buys turn 1 and the map plays differently every game. You want some randomness as well but not huge 50/50 battles that end up deciding the game the first round. Generally having some interconnected threaters of war helps make it so each player has different options on what to focus on.

Many maps don't actually do this very well and most of the moves are no brainers. NWO/WaW/TRS are examples of really bad initial unit/factory placements as the first 3-4 turns play out almost the same way every time to the point I've seen players take a save at say the start of turn 3 and just play from that again and again.

Probably TWW and Civil War have maybe the most interesting initial setup options as they tend to play out pretty differently every play through and almost every player has a different preferred opening. Once you get to UK1 in TWW, things can have played out pretty differently and the UK has tons of options on what to focus on (pressure France vs pressure Scandinavia vs support Egypt/Med vs support Southeast Asia) as well as what to build.

@redrum right on thank you.

I have moved this topic to general map making and xml editing, as the answer/solution is not map specific and could be helpful for other map projects.
@Schulz I hope you get it to work ☺

@simon33 yea It's working now. I just didn't realize it had updated when it did. Usually took an admin to approve.

@CrazyG But you may be able to use a trigger that controls ownership based on the Territory name...

EG. Trigger a change on ownership of "OuterMongolia".

@beelee and @Lincoln-Russell If you are working on Windows and editing an XML I might suggest NotePad++ . It is a much better tool.

@beelee well took a while but I see my issue was searching for y instead of "y" Tried space y and y space but yea ...

the line error was the last line in the document so ... anyway just posting the resolution in case someone stumbles across this in the future : )

@CrazyG You could make a trigger for the ship that has the ability to make mines then have those ships automatically produce 1 invisible unit at the end of the NCM turn phase. Then you could make the purchasable mine unit consume the invisible unit. Then simply have all the (unused) invisible units removed from the map at the end of the current players turn.

I think you could even deal with the invisible unit generation be handled by the unit attachment of "canProduceXUnits" instead of a trigger.

But this is all just a suggestion. I have not tested any of this. So I am not sure what complications might arise.

Does the "capitols.txt" file have any function? I moved the capitol for one of the factions in the XML file, but not in the "capitols.txt" file. No errors happen, and the new capitol seems to function correctly.

@Cernel It works perfectly. Thanks for the help.

I had the same problem; Probably need this one;

<property name="Damage From Bombing Done To Units Instead Of Territories" value="true" editable="false">
<boolean/>
</property>

@hepps Right on thanks again

@frostion @redrum

Ok I got it. Manually editing the vc.txt file worked. But need to have it in the correct format. As shown, rather than name of image and coordinates, need name of territory and coordinates. For some reason, not sure exactly why, the mapmaker was not able to do this (in desired locations). Or maybe I just don't know how to.

Germany (1159,383) United Kingdom (869,277) Eastern United States (223,496) Western Europe (979,416) Southern Europe (1088,673) Russia (1719,256) Karelia S.S.R. (1318,258) India (1931,917) Philipine Islands (2531,1001) Western United States (3493,443) Japan (2715,537) Kwantung (2412,805)

I've looked most likely there is no way to get error message in the current version. Is there any way to detect mistakes of xml besides getting error messages.

Also I have tried to download older version. Neither this nor old version did work when I downloaded the older one. So I did delete the older one.

@ssoloff If it was in 1.9.0.0.2772, it should have been documented here:
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/wiki/Upgrade-Maps-Information

I guess you'll have to reupgrade all your maps having this property again @RogerCooper.

@beelee So to have the weaker aaType fire only, you probably have to use conditions and triggers. Otherwise it will use the strongest aa in a given aaType set if being sbr'd. Also keep in mind as @Hepps points out. There is another behavior in play regarding non-sbr aa.

Update: This change is out for version 1.9.0.0.11440 and later

@general_zod said in The Map Maker Project:

@hepps

What exactly are you proposing anyways?

I am not proposing anything specific right at this very moment since I would like to use the combined knowledge of the existing map makers (Guild) to establish a game plan. I have idea's but I am open to discussing what would be best.

I initiated the idea in the https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/918/map-maker-resources/2 and would like to build on a plan from there.

I will expand on my thoughts in more detail over the weekend.

@hepps ( dont ask Ice 😉 )