Map Tags for release 2.6
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@Cernel Im in broad agreement with your suggestions/conclusions.
So here is what Era/Age Tags mean;
Napoleonic and ACW now redefined as one, Revolutionary.
1946-2040 Nuclear (was Contemporary)
We use Nuclear and Atomic in common speech as the same thing, but here in the UK we use Nuclear more than Atomic?.
As Fast AI is only really used in maps that have lots of units and as hardware gets faster, Fast AI will fall out of use. For the purposes of Map Tags we should forget about Fast AI?See what @RogerCooper said
Fast AI is a lot faster when there are many units on the map. I often use it for large scenarios.
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/2920/if-the-fast-ai-was-removed-who-would-miss-it/9AI tag - could now look like this;
AI Rating Tag - Is Intended for single player v all AI players.
None - not rated
1 Does not play well or plays too slow
2 plays OK or well -
@thedog For the AI I would suggest.
- Satisfactory
- Hard only
- Unsatisfactory
It is possible that the tags might be need to be changed in the future. The biggest problem with the current AI being unable to run effectively on a given map is using multiple production resources, but that might change for some future version of the AI.
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I agree, words are better than numbers.
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@LaFayette has requested I list the current map tags, so getting ready for 2.6 release.
LaFayette as a minimum it would be nice to be able to sort each tag in ascending/descending order.
As a really nice to have, would be a filter on the Era Tag, so that when you select say 64-WW2-Global, it relists just the 37 Global maps, then you sort by Star or AI tags to help the player find the type of map they are looking for and then download it/them.
The Era Tag is prefixed with numbers to put the list in chronological order to aid with finding the desired era. the 60s are sub divided into 4 WW2 tags to aid in the type of map/theatre to search for.
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Era Tag
00-.....................................it is a new upload or not tagged yet
10-Fantasy
20-Ancient-Medieval
30-Renaissance
40-Revolutionary
50-WW1
60-WW2-Alternate
62-WW2-Europe
64-WW2-Global
66-WW2-Pacific
70-Nuclear
80-FutureStar Tag
Blank/no star...it is a new upload or not tagged yet
*...............................current Experimental tag
**.............................current Good tag
***..........................current Excellent tagAI Tag
Blank.........................it is a new upload or not tagged yet
Satisfactory...........the AI is exactly that
Hard only................only the Hard AI should be used
Unsatisfactory......the AI copes badly with the maps requirements -
@thedog 2 questions… we have 37 global ww2 maps? also, don't we have civil war maps or did i just imagine that?
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@ubernaut
I copied the 37 from my last count, checking today its 39 global ww2 maps.The civil war maps are in the 40-Revolutionary era tag, its years span 1765-1869.
There are 4 maps in this era 2 Napoleonic and 2 civil war maps.https://forums.triplea-game.org/tags/thedog
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3741/curated-best-top-maps-triplea-guides -
@thedog never realized it was quite that many ww2 maps
i guess that revolutionary makes sense it just kind of threw me off i guess with only 4 maps it doesn't really make sense to split it off between enlightenment and victorian but yeah hopefully it doesn't confuse people trying to find maps 
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@thedog wait sorry one question so we don't actually have any us revolution maps? i would think someone would have done that by now
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@ubernaut
Those 2 maps are American civil wars.The English civil war is in the Renaissance era 1451-1764, I dont have any English civil war maps listed.
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@thedog ok now im getting even more confused, what english civil war? if you are referring to the war of us independence from england that definitely belongs in the revolutionary group, not the renaissance.
us civil war is definitely a "revolutionary" war but nobody refers to it as such here in the states. at any rate, if we are putting civil war maps in the revolutionary category and the "revolutionary war" in renaissance we are definitely going to be confusing us players.
"You should never have told me horses sleep standing up, it gave me a mental block." - Mister Ed
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@ubernaut
Hopefully this is clearer.Renaissance era English Civil War 1642– 1651
Revolutionary era American War of Independence 1775– 1783
Revolutionary era American Civil War 1861-1865 -
@thedog yeah that makes sense now
i guess i had never heard of the english civil war i think they thought it as cromwell's rebellion or some such here in the states -
@ubernaut said in Map Tags for release 2.6:
us civil war is definitely a "revolutionary" war but nobody refers to it as such here in the states. at any rate, if we are putting civil war maps in the revolutionary category and the "revolutionary war" in renaissance we are definitely going to be confusing us players.
I think the United States American Civil War is not a revolutionary war. I would call it a (failed) secession war (which is a type of civil war) if we assume that there was no right to secede, so the north was not invading a foreign country but putting down a secessionary attempt within its own country.
I'm not seeing any better term than "Revolutionary" for the period,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Revolution
but, as I said, I'm actually bothered by the term "Reinassance". To take the example, the English Civil War was certainly not in the Reinassance, which was certainly over by 1600, and the Reinassance is usually meant to comprise part of the middle ages, at least if they end in 1492.
As I said, I would change the term to "Early Modern".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_periodThe early modern period of modern history follows the late Middle Ages of the post-classical era. Although the chronological limits of this period are open to debate, the timeframe spans the period after the late post-classical or Middle Ages (c. 1400–1500) through the beginning of the Age of Revolutions (c. 1800).
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@cernel The only decent alternative to "Revolutionary" I can think of would be "Early Industrial" (starting in about 1760 and ending somewhen in the XIX century).
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@cernel If having a period called "Early Industrial", I think it can be set from 1776 (the commercial introduction of the Watt steam engine) to 1884 (the invention of smokeless powder by Paul Vieille).
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@cernel i was actually looking at this a little earlier some possibilities could be:
great age of monarchy, 1648–1789
age of englightment, covers the 1700s more or less
victorian era, covers early to late 1800s
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@ubernaut said in Map Tags for release 2.6:
@cernel i was actually looking at this a little earlier some possibilities could be:
great age of monarchy, 1648–1789
I've never eard of this age and, from a military standpoint, I don't think that 1789 is a very good dividing point because I don't think any major military revolution happened there: the way of fighting in 1739 was about the same as in 1839. I would rather have an age going from about 1600 or 1650 (when the musketman became the main infantryman) to about mid 1850 (when repeating fire-arms start spreading and the steam engine starts effecting warfare considerably, with steam-ships and trains).
age of englightment, covers the 1700s more or less
victorian era, covers early to late 1800s
I think these ages need to be lumped together because there are too few TripleA maps about any of them. Also, the Victorian is an era in the history of the United Kingdom, not really something widely international like an age.
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Most historians would term 1492-1789 as the Early Modern period. 1789 is not a big break in weaponry, but the Revolutionary & Napoleonic wars involved a major change in the scale of warfare and reasons for conflict.
Note that any tag system is going to be arbitrary. On my wiki, I just assign by starting year. Category:Timeline
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So the only change is that Renaissance becomes Early Modern?
Era Tag
00-.....................................it is a new upload or not tagged yet
10-Fantasy
20-Ancient-Medieval
30-Early Modern
40-Revolutionary
50-WW1
60-WW2-Alternate
62-WW2-Europe
64-WW2-Global
66-WW2-Pacific
70-Nuclear
80-Future -
@thedog "Alternate" should probably be a different tag which may apply to any period, instead of only to WW2. It is going to be difficult to apply it, as arguably every TripleA game is alternate history. I really have no idea about what you intend to label as such (How about World At War, a game in which Japan has just started invading China proper (1937) at the same time it attacks pearl harbour (1941) and while Germany hasn't yet invaded Poland (1939) and New Guinea is richer than Canada? Is that alternate history enough?).
I'm doudtful about the convenience of having Global/Europe/Pacific. You can have a Global game or a game displaying any theatre of war. Would "Red Sun Over China" be Pacific as it has very little going on on the sea? If you really want to have them, maybe they should be called "Europe-Atlantic" and "Asia-Pacific". Moreover, since it is geography, that is rather another kind of tag as, for example, you can have WW1 games with only or mostly Europe or global WW1 games.
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